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EEV.  CHARLES  EDMISTON  CRAVEN. 


A  HISTORY 


OF 


MATTITUCK, 
LONG  ISLAND,  R  Y. 


BY 

REV.  CHARLES  E.  CRAVEN. 


PUBLISHED  FOR  THE  AUTHOR. 


Copyright,  1906, 
By  CHARLES  E.  CRAVEN. 

All  Rights  Reserved. 


PREFACE. 


Mattituck  is  one  of  the  oldest  of  the  second  genera- 
tion of  villages  in  Suffolk  County,  New  York.  The  first 
generation  included  the  original  town  settlements :  South- 
old  and  Southampton  in  1640,  East  Hampton  in  1648, 
Shelter  Island  in  1652,  Huntington  in  1653,  Smithtown 
about  the  same  time  and  Brookhaven  in  1655.  The  sec- 
ond generation  of  villages  comprises  the  earliest  settle- 
ments apart  from  the  town  centres.  The  villages  of  the 
first  generation,  holding  the  town  records,  have  had  their 
history  more  or  less  fully  written,  but  the  villages  of  the 
second  generation,  whose  story  is  much  harder  to  search 
out,  have  found  few  historians. 

The  writer  taking  charge  of  the  old  Mattituck  Church 
in  the  latter  part  of  1895  became  interested  in  the  history 
of  the  village  and  its  church.  In  1898  a  history  of  the 
church  was  prepared  and  publicly  read  on  Thanksgiving 
Day.  In  the  preparation  of  that  history  much  material 
came  to  hand  relating  to  the  village  but  not  specifically 
to  the  church  and  much  genealogical  information  was 
acquired.  The  publication  of  the  history  of  the  church 
was  therefore  delayed  that  it  might  become  a  part  of  a 
larger  and  more  comprehensive  work. 

Much  time  has  been  devoted  to  research — much  more 
time  and  labor  than  will  appear  to  the  casual  reader.    The 


O  TREFACE. 

Southold  Town  Records,  both  the  printed  and  the  writ- 
ten, have  been  studied  with  care,  and  many  days  have 
been  spent  delving  in  the  records  in  the  offices  of  the 
County  Clerk  and  Surrogate  and  in  the  Surrogate's  office 
in  New  York  City.  Such  ancient  documents  as  could 
be  found  in  the  keeping  of  the  families  of  the  village, 
wills,  deeds,  diaries,  letters,  scrap-books  and  other  rec- 
ords, have  been  diligently  sought  out.  Such  time  as  the 
author  could  find  amid  his  regular  duties,  for  seven  or 
eight  years  past,  has  been  spent  in  this  research.  Some- 
times for  months  together  this  work  has  been  pushed 
aside,  and  many  good  friends  waiting  for  the  promised 
history  of  their  native  village  have  suffered  trial  of  their 
patience.  Not  only  the  obligation  of  the  promise,  how- 
ever, but  personal  interest  and  pleasure  in  the  work  have 
stimulated  the  writer  to  devote  such  time  to  it  as  was 
available. 

It  is  believed  that  the  historical  and  genealogical 
statements  in  the  work  are  accurate.  Little  or  no  reli- 
ance has  been  placed  in  tradition,  for  tradition  in  many 
instances  where  it  was  possible  to  test  it  by  original  docu- 
ments has  been  found  singularly  inaccurate  and  mislead- 
ing. In  matters  of  genealogy  care  has  been  taken  to  dis- 
tinguish between  probability  and  ascertained  fact,  for  the 
author  has  been  convinced  repeatedly  that  the  most 
plausible  genealogical  conjecture  is  liable  to  be  upset  by 
a  fuller  knowledge  of  facts. 

Frequent  inquiries  for  information  from  the  inscrip- 
tions in  the  ancient  burying-ground  and  from  the  regis- 
ters of  the  Mattituck  and  Aquebogue  (Jamesport) 
Churches  make  it  plain  that  the  appended  lists  of  Bap- 
tisms, Marriages  and  Deaths  and  of  Inscriptions  from 


PREFACE.  7 

the;  Mattituck  Burying-Ground  will  meet  a  widespread 
want,  giving  valuable  genealogical  material  relating  to 
many  widely  scattered  families.  In  transcribing  the 
parish  records  the  peculiar  orthography  of  the  originals 
has  been  strictly  followed  except  in  the  case  of  a  few 
familiar  names  such  as  Israel,  Nathaniel,  and  Temper- 
ance, where  some  strange  habits  of  the  Rev.  Benjamin 
Goldsmith  have  been  corrected.  In  transcribing  the 
names  and  dates  from  the  stones  in  the  burying-ground 
the  family  names  have  been  arranged  alphabetically.  In 
cases  where  there  are  many  graves  of  the  same  family 
name  the  several  branches  of  the  family  have  been 
grouped  separately  as  far  as  possible.  In  the  column 
headed  "Age"  the  date  of  birth  is  given,  or  the  age  at 
death,  according  to  the  inscription.  In  this  column  three 
figures  separated  by  dashes,  as  60 — 6 — 26,  indicate  years, 
months  and  days.  When  old  and  new  style  dates  are 
both  inscribed  on  monuments  the  new  style  is  followed. 
The  location  of  each  grave  is  given  in  the  column  marked 
"Grave."  In  this  column  the  letters  designate  the  rows  ot 
graves  in  alphabetical  order  from  east  to  west.  The  num- 
bers indicate  the  distance  in  feet  from  the  grave-stone 
to  the  north  fence.  Thus  "G98"  locates  the  stone  of  Mr. 
Jacob  Aldrich  in  the  seventh  row  west  of  the  Presby- 
terian Church,  ninety-eight  feet  from  the  north  fence. 
In  this  column  "Mid"  signifies  the  middle  portion  of  the 
grave  yard,  lying  between  the  original  burying-ground 
and  Bethany  Cemetery.  In  the  middle  ground  the  let- 
ters indicate  the  rows  from  east  to  west  and  the  numerals 
indicate  the  number  of  feet  from  the  path  lying  between 
the  old  and  middle  grounds.  In  the  transcription  of  the 
records  from  the  register  and  the  stones  the  author  has 


S  TREFACE. 

made  occasional  notes,  which  are  invariably  inclosed  in 
brackets. 

Thanks  are  due  to  many  friends  whose  interest  and 
helpfulness  have  made  this  book  possible.  Mr.  William 
Y.  Fithian,  the  Town  Clerk  of  Southold,  has  shown  great 
courtesy  to  the  author,  who  has  had  frequent  occasion 
to  visit  his  office.  To  Surrogate  Joseph  M.  Belford  and 
his  clerk,  Air.  Robert  W.  Duvall,  the  author  is  indebted 
for  valuable  aid  and  kindly  consideration.  Mr.  William 
F.  Flanagan,  Assistant  County  Clerk,  has  shown  both 
ability  and  readiness  to  grant  practical  assistance  and 
his  kindness  is  highly  appreciated.  The  author  is  greatly 
indebted  to  William  Wallace  Tooker,  Esq.,  of  Sag  Har- 
bor, N.  Y.,  and  to  the  Rev.  Joseph  Anderson  of  Water- 
bury,  Conn.,  both  acknowledged  authorities  in  Indian 
lore,  who  have  given  valuable  aid  in  the  interpretation  of 
Indian  names.  All  sons  of  Mattituck  who  read  this  book 
will  be  grateful  for  the  courtesy  of  Mr.  William  S.  Pelle- 
Ireau  in  permitting  the  author  to  copy  the  muster  roll 
of  Capt.  Paul  Reeve's  Company  of  Minute  Men  from 
the  History  of  Long  Island  published  in  1903  by  the 
Lewis   Publishing  Company. 

Especial  acknowledgment  is  due  to  Mr.  Frank  M. 
Lupton  of  New  York.  As  a  loyal  son  of  Mattituck  he 
has  shown  interest  in  his  native  village  in  many  substan- 
tial ways,  and  to  help  forward  the  publication  of  this 
village  history  he  has  made  available  the  complete  re- 
sources of  his  printing  house  and  besides  this  has  given 
his  personal  supervision  to  the  printing,  illustration  and 
manufacture  of  the  book,  all  without  charge  beyond  the 
actual  cost.  Not  resting  satisfied  with  thus  reducing  the 
cost  to  a  minimum  Mr.  Lupton  has  joined  with  the  trus- 


preface;.  9 

tees  of  the  Mattituck  Presbyterian  Church,  Messrs. 
Charles  Gildersleeve,  Benjamin  C.  Kirkup,  Nathaniel  S. 
Tuthill,  Conrad  Grabie,  John  G.  Reeve  and  Henry  J. 
Reeve,  in  assuming  the  entire  expense  for  the  manufac- 
ture of  the  book.  The  overwhelming  generosity  of  these 
gentlemen  deeply  touches  the  author  and  for  it  he  makes 
grateful  acknowledgment.  \Miile  realizing  that  love  for 
Mattituck  and  a  desire  to  preserve  her  history  in  perma- 
nent and  fitting  form  account  in  part  for  this  generous 
-action  he  cannot  fail  to  see  and  to  value  the  unmistakable 
indication  of  good-will  toward  the  historian.  Owing  to 
this  kind  and  practical  interest  the  book  is  published  in 
"better  form  than  would  have  been  possible  otherwise  and 
the  author  is  relieved  from  the  anxiety  attending  a  doubt- 
ful venture. 

The  hope  is  cherished  that  this  book  will  fill  satisfac- 
torily its  own  place  and  need.  It  will  preserve  the  an- 
nals of  the  village  and  the  old  church,  and  it  is  fondly 
Tioped  that  it  may  help  to  bind  the  hearts  of  the  scattered 
sons  and  daughters  of  jMattituck  still  more  closely  to  the 
old  home  place  and  that  it  may  have  influence  in  con- 
serving the  best  elements  of  the  character  and  marked 
individuality  of  the  village,  for  there  is  no  other  village 
just  like  it.  Mattituck  is  destined  to  outgrow  the  limits 
•of  the  past  in  population,  wealth  and  importance,  but  she 
must  not  outgrow  her  best  traditions.  A  greater  Matti- 
tuck let  her  become,  but  ever  the  same  old  Mattituck. 

Charles  E.  Cravex. 
Sept.  20th,  1906. 


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CONTENTS. 


PAGE 

Chapter         I.     The  Beginning  of  Mattituck 13 

Chapter       II.     The  Occupation  of  the  Land 33 

Chapter     III.     The  EarHest  Settlers 66 

Chapter     IV.     The  Founding  of  the  Church 86 

Chapter  V.  Mattituck  in  Revolutionary  Times.  119 
Chapter     VI.     Parish  History  from  Revolutionary 

Times  to  1845 150 

Chapter    VII.     Church  History  from  1845  to  the 

Present  Time 174 

Chapter  VIII.  Mattituck  Before  the  Railroad ....  194 
Chapter     IX.     Modern  Mattituck 222 

Parish  Registers  of  Mattituck  and  Aquebogue 252 

Mattituck  Parish  Burying-Ground 357 

Index   397 


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A  HISTORY  OF  MAHITUCK. 


CHAPTER  I. 

THE    BEGINNING    OF    MATTITUCK. 

Mattituck  is  a  village  in  the  Town  of  Southold, 
County  of  Suffolk,  State  of  New  York.  It  lies  between 
Long  Island  Sound  and  the  Great  Peconic  Bay,  near 
the  eastern  end  of  Long  Island.  It  is  about  twenty-five 
miles  west  of  Orient  Point  and  eighty-three  miles  east 
of  New  York,  on  the  main  line  of  the  Long  Island  Rail- 
road. It  covers  eight  or  nine  square  miles,  the  Sound 
and  Bay  being  three  miles  apart  on  the  north  and  south, 
and  the  neighboring  villages,  Cutchogue  and  Laurel,  be- 
ing about  three  miles  apart  on  the  east  and  west.  The 
Mattituck  Creek,  or  Bay,  is  an  estuary  of  irregular  form 
extending  inland  from  the  Sound  two  miles  toward  the 
south  and  having  several  arms  of  considerable  length 
reaching  towards  the  east  and  west.  Near  the  head  of 
this  Bay  is  the  centre  of  the  village,  where  the  ancient 
highway  from  Orient  Point  and  Southold  divides,  the 
north  road  extending  through  Wading  River,  Port  Jef- 
ferson, Setauket  and  the  villages  along  the  north  shore 
of  Long  Island,  the  south  road  passing  through  River- 
head  and  the  central  portion  of  the  island.  The  popula- 
tion of  Mattituck  is  about  1,200,  largely  of  Puritan 
descent. 


14  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

The  band  of  colonists  who  set  out  from  New  Haven 
in  1640  and  settled  Southold  in  Long  Island  soon  ac- 
quired "all  that  tract  of  land  scituate  lying  and  being 
at  the  Eastward  end  of  Long  Island  and  bounded  with 
the  River  called  in  the  English  toung  the  Weading 
Kreek,  in  the  Indian  toung  Pauquaconsuk,  on  the  West, 
To  and  with  Plum  Island  on  the  East,  .  .  .  with 
the  Sound  called  the  North  Sea  on  the  North,  and  with 
a  River  or  arme  of  the  Sea  .  .  .  on  ye  South,  .  .  . 
together  with  ...  all  necks  of  lands  meadows 
Islands,  ,  .  .  rivers  Kreeks  with  timber,  woods  and 
woodlands,  fishing  foouling,  hunting,  and  all  other  com- 
modities whatsoever  unto  the  said  tract  of  land  and 
Iseland  belonging,  ...  as  Corchaug  and  Matta- 
tuck,  and  all  other  tracts  of  land."  This  description  of 
the  ancient  boundaries  of  Southold  Town  is  quoted  from 
an  Indian  Deed  of  1665,*  wherein  forty-three  Indians 
confirmed  the  Town's  right  to  the  several  tracts  involved 
which  had  been  previously  "purchased,  procured  and 
paid  for  of  the  Sachems  and  Indians  our  Auncestors." 
The  original  deed  for  the  tract  known  to  the  Indians  as 
Mattatuck  is  preserved  in  the  records  of  Brookhaven 
Town,f  and  runs  as  follows: 

These  presents  witness  that  Uxsquepassem,  otherwise 
called  the  paummis  Sachem,  together  with  his  three 
brothers,  viz:  Weewacup,  Nowconneey,  Neesant- 
QUAGGUS,  for  and  [in]  consideration  of  two  fathome  of 
wampum,  one  iron  pott,  six  coats,  ten  knives,  fower 
hooks  and  forty  needles  payd  into  their  hands  at  the 
ensealing  hereof,  have  granted,  bargained  and  sold  unto 

*Southold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  II.,  p.  6. 
tBrookhaven  Printed  Records,  Vol.  I.,  p.  76. 


A      HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  1 5 

Mr.  Theophilus  Eaton,  Governor  of  the  jurisdiction 
of  Newhaven,  and  to  Mr.  Steven  Goodyeare,  Deputy 
Governor  for  and  in  behalf e  of  the  jurisdictions,  all  that 
land  lying  between  Corchake  and  Ucquebaak,  commonly 
called  Mattatuck,  or  what  name  or  names  soever  it  be 
called,  bounded  on  the  East  with  the  creek  Conegums 
and  the  way  leading  thenc  to  jNIattatuck  pond,  for  the 
drawing  over  of  their  Canooes;  and  on  the  South  with 
the  great  coo,  and  on  the  North  with  the  Sea,  and  west- 
Avard  to  Ucquebaak  and  beyond.  So  far  as  his  right  or 
any  of  theirs  do  extend,  provided  that  he  may  enjoy  the 
privilidges  of  his  Ancestors,  namely,  the  skins  of  such 
Dear  as  are  taken  by  the  Indians  in  the  waters  and  the 
Indian  Canoes  drawn  upon  the  shore,  to  have  and  to 
hold  all  that  tract  of  land  as  before  expressed,  with  the 
creeks,  meddowes,  uplands,  and  all  their  appertenances 
to  the  said  Theophilus  Eaton  and  Stephen  Goodyeare, 
Esquires,  in  behalfe  of  the  jurisdictions  to  them,  their 
heirs  and  assigns,  with  Warrantie  against  the  aforesaid 
Paummiss  Sachem  and  his  three  brothers  and  there 
hayres  and  assignes,  and  all,  every  other  person  what- 
soever claiming  any  right  or  title,  by  or  under  them,  in  or 
to  all  or  any  the  above  specified,  or  any  parcel  thereof. 
In  witness  whereof  the  aforesaid  Usquepassum,  Week- 
wacup,  Noweonney  and  Neesantequaggus  have  sett  their 
hands  and  scales  the  one  and  twenty  of  March,  1648. 

Sealed  and  delivered  Hamaiam    Pom, 

in  the  presence  of  us,  deceased  grantee. 

Jo  YoNGS,  Uxsquepassum, 

Sam  Youngs  Weekwacup, 

Tosh  Parker  Noweonney, 

Neesantequaggus. 


l6  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

This  interesting  deed  conveyed  Mattatuck  to  Gov. 
Eaton  as  the  representative  of  the  New  Haven  Colony. 
The  Colony  strictly  enforced  at  that  time  a  law  forbid- 
ding private  purchase  of  land  from  Indians.  The  Col- 
ony of  course  held  the  land  for  the  benefit  of  the  South- 
old   Plantation. 

Ten  years  later,  at  a  General  Court  in  New  Haven,* 
May  26th,  1658,  "The  Deputies  of  Southold  propounded 
ye  desires  of  their  towne  to  repurchase  of  ye  jurisdic- 
tion a  pcell  [parcel]  of  land  called  Mattatock  and  Akka- 
bawke,  wch  ye  court  considering,  by  vote  declared,  that 
they  paying  7  li.  in  good  pay,  ye  said  land  is  theires, 
wch  was  accepted  by  their  deputies."  The  two  South- 
old  deputies  that  year  were  Thomas  Moore  and  Barna- 
bas Horton,  both  of  whom  are  represented  by  lineal 
descendants  in  "Mattatock"  today.  The  seven  pounds 
were  paid  the  next  year  "in  wampom." 

The  Mattatuck  that  was  thus  sold  to  the  New  Haven 
Colony  by  the  Indians  and  then  by  the  Colony  to  the 
people  of  Southold  lay  between  Corchake  (Cutchogue) 
and  Acquebaak  (Aquebogue)  and  covered  the  western 
half  of  the  present  village  of  Mattituck.  It  extended 
from  the  Sound  to  Peconic  Bay  and  from  the  Creek 
Conegums  and  the  Indian  Canoe  Path  on  the  east  to 
an  indefinite  western  boundary.  The  Indian  name 
"Conegums"  means  "a  boundary  place,"  and  the  creek 
so  called  by  the  Indians  is  doubtless  Reeve's  Creek 
(sometimes  called  James'  Creek)  opening  into  the  Bay 
a  little  east  of  the  Bay  Road.  The  "Mattituck  Pond" 
of  the  Indian  deed  is  Mattituck  Creek.     It  is  occasion- 


*New  Haven  Colonial  Records,  Vol.  II.,  p.  233. 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 


17 


ally  called  Mattituck  Pond  in  the  early  Southold  rec- 
ords.* The  Canoe  Path,  along  which  the  Indians  trans- 
ported their  canoes  from  creek  to  creek,  leaving  the 
head  of  Reeve's  Creek  (then  "Conegums")  passed  a 
few  rods  east  of  the  ninth  mile-stone  from  Riverhead, 
followed  the  line  of  the  hedge  in  the  rear  of  the  Meth- 
odist   Episcopal    parsonage    and    the    other   lots    on    the 


THE  COVE. 
The  boats  along  the  shore  are  near  the  Indian  Canoe  Place. 

west  side  of  Pacific  street  and  crossing  the  north  road 
followed  the  line  now  dividing  the  Donovan  property 
from  'Mr.  Edward  S  Horton  until  it  reached  the  shore 
of   Alattituck   Creek. t     This   portage  at   Mattituck,  to- 


*Southold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  I.,  p.  61,  p.  108. 
tThe   Canoe  Path  or  Canoe  Place  at  Mattituck  is  commonly 
supposed    to    have    followed    the    line   of    Love    Lane,    passing 


l8  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

gather  with  the  corresponding  one  on  the  south  side  of 
Peconic  Bay  at  the  place  still  known  as  Canoe  Place, 
gave  the  Indians  a  much  traveled  through  route  from 
the  Sound  to  the  Shinnecock  and  Great  South  Bays. 
The  Shinnecock  Canal  now  takes  the  place  of  the  port- 
age on  the  south  side,  and  it  is  proposed  to  cut  a  canal 
at  Mattituck,  opening  up  for  navigation  the  very  route 
frequented  by  the  Indians  hundreds  of  years  ago.  This 
project  is  feasible  and  will  undoubtedly  be  carried  out 
some  day.  Its  utility  would  be  considerable  from  a 
commercial  standpoint  and  its  strategic  advantages  for 
coast  defence,  opening  up  a  remarkable  system  of  in- 
terior water-ways  for  torpedo  craft  and  small  gun  boats,, 
would  be  of  great  value. 

The  meaning  of  the  Indian  name  Mattatuck  as. ap- 
plied to  this  region  is  difficult  to  determine.  The  name's 
of  the  adjacent  districts  present  no  difficulties.  Cutch- 
ogue  is  Kehtchi-aiike,  "the  principal  place,"  the  district 
in  which  the  Indian  village  and  fort  were  located.  Aque^ 
bogue  is  Ucqiic-baug,  "the  head  of  the  bay."  Peconic 
is  Pchikkonuk,  "the  little  plantation."  ]\Iattatuck  is 
made  up  of  an  adjectival  part.  Matt  a,  and  a  substantive 
part,  tuck.  The  tuck  may  stand  either  for  tugk,  "wood,"^ 
"tree,"  or  for  tnk,  a  "tidal  river"  or  "estuary."  Both 
were  commonly  written  tuck  by  the  colonists  in  tran- 
scribing Indian  names,  the  deep  guttural  of  the  Indian 


through  the  present  centre  of  the  village.  Mr.  J.  Wickham 
Case,  in  a  note  in  Southold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  I.,  p.  108,  says-- 
that  it  "was  about  where  the  hotel  now  stands."  This  is  one 
of  the  few  errors  in  Mr.  Case's  remarkably  accurate  and' 
luminous  notes.  The  Canoe  Place  became  an  important  bound- 
ary line  and  its  position  is  established  by  transfers  of  adjacent 
property. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  KJ 

tugk  being  difficult  for  English  ears  and  tongues.  Spell- 
ing was  far  from  an  exact  science  in  those  days,  and 
Indian  names  were  sadly  maltreated  and  often  rendered 
unrecognizable  in  the  effort  to  reproduce  them  in  Eng- 
lish letters.  For  this  reason  also  it  is  difficult  to  decide 
the  value  of  Matta,  or  Matti,  as  the  first  part  of  the 
name  was  often  rendered  in  the  early  records.  There 
was  a  Mattatuck  in  Connecticut  (now  Waterbury), 
which  Trumbull*  renders  "a  place  without  wood,  or 
badly  wooded,"  taking  the  name  to  stand  for  Matiih' 
tugk.  This  would  not  seem  a  satisfactory  description 
of  the  Long  Island  Mattituck,  which  was  undoubtedly 
as  heavily  wooded  as  any  adjacent  land.  To  substitute 
tuk  for  tugk  and  make  it  "the  bad  creek"  would  seem 
likewise  unsatisfactory  for  the  Mattituck  Creek  is  the 
finest  and  largest  creek  in  this  region.  Mr.  W.  S.  Pel- 
letreau  has  suggested  that  matta  is  a  corruption  of  the 
Indian  viassa,  "great,"  and  ]\Iattatuck,  for  Massatuk, 
means  "the  great  creek."  The  writer  is  inclined  to  ac- 
cept this  derivation,  which  as  Mr.  Pelletreau  remarks 
"is  amply  proven  by  the  geographical  features  of  the 
place."  The  substitution  of  matta  for  uiassa  is  not  un- 
exampled according  to  Trumbull. f  The  difficulty  in 
the  way  of  positively  accepting  this  explanation  is  that 
the  t  is  persistent  wherever  the  name  of  Mattatuck  is 
found  in  ancient  records.  There  is  not  one  known  in- 
stance of  the  spelling  Massatuck.  On  this  account  Mr. 
Wm.  Wallace  Tooker,  recognized  as  the  leading  au- 
thority on  Indian  Xames  of  Long  Island,  rejects  this 
interpretation.     It  may  be  suggested,  however,  that  the.- 


*Indian  Names  in  Connecticut,  p.  27.  flbid.,  p.  26^ 


20  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

existence  of  a  Mattatuck  in  Connecticut  might  easily 
have  misled  the  white  settlers.  They  were  for  the  most 
part  ignorant  of  the  language  of  the  Indians  and  meet- 
ing a  new  name  Massatiick  would  probably  have  iden- 
tified it  with  the  familiar  Mattatuck. 

Another  interesting  name  for  Mattituck  is  Nabia- 
chogc,  which  Mr.  Wm.  Wallace  Tooker  defines  as  "the 
place  of  the  divided  hills."  This  is  a  peculiarly  appro- 
priate name  for  Mattituck  Creek,  passing  as  it  does  be- 
tween high  hills  on  either  side.  It  is  a  name  little  used, 
however,  by  the  white  settlers,  appearing  in  the  records 
only  once  so  far  as  the  writer  has  discovered.  This  one 
reference  is  in  the  will  of  the  first  Thomas  Mapes,  who 
leaves  to  his  son  Jabez.  "all  my  land*  at  Nabiachage  or 
Mattituck  houses  with  all  the  meadow  adjoining  to  it." 
The  final  age  in  this  name  stands  for  auke,  "place,"  the 
same  as  the  final  syllable  of  Cutchogue  (Kehtchi-auke). 

The  woodland  at  Mattituck  was  held  in  common  by 
the  people  of  Southold  until  1661  when  it  was  divided 
among  individual  proprietors  and  in  1662  the  actual 
settlement  of  the  place  began.  But  the  meadow  lands 
we're  allotted  as  soon  as  the  district  was  made  over  to 
the  Town  by  New  Haven.  This  appears  from  entries 
in  the  early  records  like  the  following  record  of  land  of 
William  Furrier  :f  "All  that  parcell  of  meadowe,  fresh 
and  salt  lying  next  the  Canoe  Place  att  Mattituck  of  late 
years  in  his  possession  beinge  and  to  him  given  by  the 
Towne  at  their  meetinge  held  the  eight  and  twentieth  of 


*This  did  not  refer  to  Mapes'  Neck,  on  which  the  first 
Thomas  Mapes  never  resided,  but  to  property  which  is  now 
part  of  the  estate  of  Charles  W.  Wickham. 

tSouthold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  I.,  p.  47. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  21 

October  1658."  This  was  the  extensive  meadow  land 
lying  to  the  east  of  Reeve's  or  Conegums  Creek.  Mor- 
ton's Creek  derives  its  name  from  the  fact  that  Barna- 
bas Horton  became  the  owner  of  the  meadow  beside  it 
and  probably  Brush's  Creek  takes  its  name  from  Thomas 
Brush  for  a  similar  reason  though  Brush  failed  to  record 
the  ownership.  The  "Great  Meadow"  lying  west  of  the 
present  village  of  New  Suffolk  was  divided  early  into  a 
great  number  of  small  holdings  from  one  to  four  acres 
each.  These  meadow  lands,  though  mostly  salt,  were 
esteemed  very  valuable  and  the  salt  hay  or  "creek 
thatch"  was  cut  from  them  regularly.  The  woodland 
was  comparatively  useless,  requiring  years  to  clear  it 
and  bring  it  under  cultivation,  and  for  a  long  time  a  few 
acres  of  salt  meadow  were  counted  more  valuable  than 
a  hundred  acres  of  woodland.  This  fact,  that  the  mead- 
ows were  allotted  earlier  than  the  upland  or  when  not 
allotted  were  held  in  common  as  a  most  valuable  posses- 
sion, accounts  for  the  curious  circumstance  that  to  this 
day  many  small  patches  of  meadow,  now  regarded  as 
of  little  or  no  value,  are  held  by  others  than  the  owners 
of  the  adjoining  upland.*  And  there  are  many  old 
rights  of  way  recorded  in  ancient  deeds  whereby  owners 
of  meadows  were  enabled  to  cart  their  "creek  thatch" 
across  adjacent  farms.  The  only  hay  that  the  early  set- 
tlers used  was  this  that  they  cut  from  the  meadows,  un- 
less   occasionally    a    ship-load    was    imported    from    the 


*For  instance,  Dec.  1st,  1686,  "It  was  given  and  granted  by 
vote  that  Thomas  Terrill  and  Theophilus  Corwin  should  have 
a  scertain  parcell  of  creek  thatch  Lieing  in  common  *  *  * 
adjoining  to  the  eastward  side  of  James  Reeve  his  neck  of  up 
Land  at  Mattetuck." — Liber  D,  Town  Records. 


22  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

mother  country.  This  explains  the  term  "EngHsh  hay" 
that  is  sometimes  used  to  this  day  to  designate  the  crops 
that  are  sown  and  harvested  on  the  upland  hay-fields. 
For  many  years  the  meadow  lands  about  Mattituck 
Creek  were  held  in  common  and  the  right  to  cut  the 
creek  thatch  was  sold  to  individuals  year  after  year. 
Entries  like  this  appear  in  the  town  books :  "Oct. 
1725.  William  Coleman,  Dr.  for  the  common  creek 
thatch  at  Matetuck,  10  shillings,  3  pence."  "Sept  i, 
1724.  Gershom  Terry  Jur.  for  Matetuck  creek  thatch 
(22^  shears  was  kept  back  for  Lt.  Winds  rights)  17 
shillings,  ^  pence."  "May  4,  1731.  Lt.  Thomas  Reeve 
for  Matetuck  creek  thatch,  4  shillings  4  pence."  The 
busy  farmers  today  have  no  time  to  waste  in  cutting 
creek  thatch,  but  in  their  boyhood  it  was  considered  im- 
portant. The  following  sentence  from  a  conveyance  of 
a  hundred  years  ago  illustrates  the  importance  of  this 
item.  In  an  instrument  conveying  a  hundred  and  fifty 
acres  of  land  there  is  added,  "Also  a  piece  of  meadow 
lying  in  Mattituck  Creek,  said  to  cut  three  loads  of  hay, 
west  of  Thomas  Reeve's  springs,  surrounded  by  water." 
Since  these  meadow  lands  were  used  from  the  first 
it  was  necessary  to  cut  the  main  highways  through  the 
wood-land  of  the  town  to  give  access  to  them,  as  well 
as  to  reach  the  neighboring  towns  of  Southampton  and 
Brookhaven.  Doubtless  very  soon  after  1640  the  high- 
way was  laid  out  from  Southold  village  westward 
through  Mattituck  to  the  head  of  Peconic  Bay  (now 
Riverhead)  there  to  meet  a  highway  laid  out  at  the  same 
time  from  Southampton.  This  was  at  first  known  as  the 
highway  to  Southampton.  The  Brookhaven  settlement 
at  Setauket  was  made  in  1655  and  the  "Setacut  Road" 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  23 

was  probably  opened  as  soon  thereafter  as  possible  from 
Mattitiick.  The  highway  through  Mattituck  lay  to  the 
south  of  the  fresh  water  pond  now  known  as  Marra- 
tooka  Lake  until  1710  when  it  was  changed  to  its  pres- 
ent position. 

The  account  of  the  changing  of  the  highway  is  re- 
corded in  Liber  A,  p.  142,  of  Suffolk  County  Deeds,  and 
runs  as  follows : 

"Whereas  there  was  an  Act  of  ye  Govern't  Council! 
and  Representatives  of  the  Colony  of  N  Yorke  made  in  ye 
2d  year  of  ye  reigne  of  our  sovereigne  Lady  Anne  by 
ye  grace  of  God  of  England  &c  Queen  Defendr  of  ye 
faith  &c  for  ye  laying  out  Regulating  clearing  and  pre- 
serving publick  common  hygh  ways  throughout  ye  sd 
Colony  And  it  was  thereby  Enacted  that  Commission- 
ers to  put  ye  sd  Act  in  Execution  according  to  ye  true 
intent  and  meaning  of  ye  same  were  nominated  and  ap- 
pointed for  ye  Respective  Countyes  in  ye  sd  Colony  vizt 
For  ye  County  of  Suffolke  Mr.  John  Tuthill  senr  Lieut 
Joseph  Peirson  and  Thomas  Helme,  w^hich  sd  Commis- 
sioners have  layd  out  and  ascertained  ye  Publick  com- 
mon high  wayes  within  ye  sd  County  of  Suffolke  as 
followeth :     .     .     . 

"The  Highway  from  Peaconnuck  river  to  Southold 
to  be  in  ye  usuall  road  from  ye  sd  river  to  Mattatucke 
already  layd  out  four  poles  wide  at  ye  least,  ye  trees 
generally  marked  on  ye  south  side  of  ye  way,  and  at 
Mattatucke  ye  highway  to  be  on  ye  north  side  of  ye 
pond  and  soe  directly  leading  to  ye  old  road  to  ye  town 
of  Southold.     .     .     . 

"The  high  way  from  ye  towne  of  Southold  to  ye 
westw^ard  farms  on  ye  northside  to  be  ye  usuall  road  to 


24  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

Alattatucke  and  see  on  ye  northside  of  ye  pond  in  ye 
way  lately  marked  out  to  ye  usiiall  road  leading  to  Rich- 
ard Howells  and  from  thence  in  ye  usual  road  to  yc 
beach  and  so  on  ye  beach  to  ye  fresh  pond  and  to  ye 
place  called  ye  wading  river." 

The  second  year  of  Queen  Anne  was  1703.  The  date 
of  the  report  of  the  finished  work  is  July  25,  1710.  It 
was  fifty  years  before  this,  shortly  after  the  Restoration 
and  early  in  the  reign  of  Charles  II.,  that  Mattituck 
was  opened  for  actual  settlement. 

The  exact  line  of  the  highway  south  of  the  pond  be- 
fore 1710  is  difficult  to  determine  but  certain  known 
facts  establish  definite  points  upon  it.  The  road  now 
south  of  the  pond  in  front  of  the  houses  of  George  B. 
Reeve  and  Charles  W.  Wickham  is  certainly  a  part  of 
the  ancient  highway.  Certain  wills  and  deeds  relating 
to  the  Corwin  property  south  of  the  present  highway 
also  fix  the  farm  house  of  James  J.  Kirkup  as  a  point 
on  the  old  highway.  This  is  a  modern  house,  but  it 
stands  vv'here  2d  Theophilus  Corwin  lived,  and  died  in 
1762  in  his  eighty-fourth  year,  and  where  his  father,  ist 
Theophilus,  son  of  the  original  Matthias,  probably  lived 
before  him.  Samuel,  son  of  2d  Theophilus,  dwelt  a  few 
rods  west  of  his  father  near  the  Corwin  property  line. 
The  place  where  Samuel  Corwin's  house  stood  is  still 
discernible,  a  slight  hollow  surrounded  by  a  ridge  where 
the  foundation  stood,  close  to  bars  in  the  fence  dividing 
the  lands  of  James  J.  Kirkup  and  Charles  W.  Wickham. 
These  two  houses  undoubtedly  stood  on  the  ancient 
highway,  which  passed  through  the  place  marked  by 
the  modern  bars,  followed  a  track  still  plain  and  to  some 
extent   used,   circling   around    the   corner   of   Chas.   W. 


THK   XOIITH    tiOAl). 


26  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

Wickham's  orchard  past  the  north  end  of  the  hemlock 
hedge  into  the  road  that  runs  along  the  east  side  of  the 
pond.  This  line  is  confirmed  by  several  early  transfers 
of  Corwin  property.  One  in  particular  may  be  found  on 
p.  518  of  Vol.  II.  of  Southold  Printed  Records.  This  is 
a  deed  of  1782  and  is  remarkable  for  giving  measure- 
ments and  courses  of  property  lines :  something  uncom- 
mon in  deeds  of  that  time.  This  deed  conveys  about  45 
acres  of  the  Theophilus  Corwin  property  from  John  and 
Elizabeth  (Mapes)  Case  to  John  Corwin,  Jr.  It  men- 
tions the  house  of  the  widow  Hannah  Harvey,  which 
was  the  house  of  her  father,  2d  Theophilus,  and  gives 
measurements  which  led  the  writer  to  look  for  traces  of 
the  Samuel  Corwin  house  and  the  old  highway  about 
fifty-five  or  sixty  rods  from  the  'present  highway  with 
gratifying  results. 

East  of  James  J.  Kirkup's  house  the  old  highway 
crossed  the  farm  of  Philip  W.  Tuthill  and  probably 
reached  the  present  highway  not  far  west  of  Manor  hill. 
There  is  little  to  guide  one  in  determining  the  course  of 
the  old  highway  west  of  the  pond.  It  may  have  followed 
the  line  of  Reeve  Place  or  it  may  have  crossed  the  ath- 
letic grounds  and  the  school  lot.  It  must  have  reached 
the  present  highway  east  of  the  point  where  it  branches 
into  the  north  and  south  roads. 

At  a  Town  Meeting  held  Nov.  20,  1661,*  "It  was 
then  agreed  and  confirmed  by  a  major  vote  that  all  com- 
on   lands  att   Oysterponds    [Orient],   Curchaug,f   Occa- 


*Southold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  I.,  p.  350, 

tCorchaug  and  Occabauck  is  the  spelling  of  the  names  of 
these  districts  in  the  list  of  proprietors,  Vol.  I.,  p.  352,  but  each 
Town  Recorder  and  every  writer  of  deeds  bad  his  own  method 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  2/ 

bauck  and  Mattatuck  should  be  surveyed,  and  layed  out 
to  every  man  his  due  proporcon  in  each  place  as  it  was 
then  agreed  :  Vidlt : 

"Oysterponnd  Lands  into  ffortie  small  lots  to  such 
persons  only  as  have  given  in  their  names  for  these  divi- 
dends : — Curchaug  bounds  from  the  Townes  antient 
bounds  to  the  Canoe  place  at  Mattituck.  Also  into  fforty 
small  lotts  to  those  p'sons  only  as  likewise  have  given  in 
their  names  in  writeinge  for  the  same — and  Occabauck 
and  the  rest  of  Mattituck  lands  from  the  said  cannoe 
place  as  far  as  the  Towne  had  any  rights  to  bee  divided 
accordinge  to  fforty  smaull  lotts,  also  and  to  remayne  to 
such  p'sons  as  in  like  manner  had  given  in  theire  names 
in  writeinge  to  bee  the  soule  proprietors  thereof — yet 
not  withstanding,  all  the  said  severall  parcells  of  Land 
from  east  to  west  were  still  to  remayne  in  comon  as  for- 
merly in  respect  of  feedinge  the  herbage  that  should 
grow  thereon,  save'g  such  only  out  thereof  as  should  bee 
ymproved  by  them  and  fenced  from  the  comon  Land." 

The  Town's  "antient  bounds"  extended  "From  Toms 
Creek  east  to  Puckquashineck  west."*  "Puckquashineck" 
is  what  we  know  as  Pequash  Neck,  now  the  property  of 
the  Fleets.  This  neck  then  belonged  to  the  first  Wm. 
Wells,  and  was  the  westernmost  holding  included  in  the 
old  bounds.  The  settlers  believing  that  the  time  was 
come  to  lengthen  their  cords  and  strengthen  their  stakes, 
determined  to  divide  all  the  outlying  common  land,  en- 


or  variety  of  methods  of  spelling  these  names.  The  writer  has 
noted  thirty  or  forty  ways  of  spelling  each,  ranging  from 
Cachauk  to  Cautchchaug,  and  from  Occoback  or  Accobauk  to 
Hauquebauge. 

*Southold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  I.,  p.  146. 


28  A    HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

couraging  settlement  in  the  outlying  districts,  at  the  same 
time  wisely  providing  that  the  allotted  land  should  con- 
tinue to  be  used  for  the  common  pasturage  of  cattle  until 
it  was  actually  fenced  and  improved.  It  seemed  con- 
venient to  make  three  great  divisions  of  the  land  to  be 
allotted.  One  of  these,  east  of  the  settlement  and  ex- 
tending to  Orient  Point,  they  called  the  Oysterponds 
Di\ndend.  The  much  larger  district  lying  westward  they 
marked  out  as  the  Corchaug  Dividend,  extending  from 
William  Wells'  Puckquashineck*  to  the  Canoe  Place  at 
Mattituck.  and  the  Occabauck  Dividend  extending  from 
the  Canoe  Place  westward.  This  Occabauck  Dividend, 
as  acuially  laid  out,  did  not  include  all  the  land  "as  far 
as  the  Towne  had  any  rights  to  bee  divided"  as  was  first 
proposed.  It  extended  only  so  far  as  the  present  village 
of  Riverhead.  This  was  afterwards  known  as  the  First 
Division  in  Occabauck  and  later  smaller  divisions  or  divi- 
dends knowTi  as  the  Second  and  Third  were  allotted,  ex- 
tending all  the  way  to  the  Wading  River,  that  separated 
Southold  from  Brookhaven  town.  Thus  it  will  be  seen 
the  name  Mattituck  was  lost  for  a  time  as  the  designa- 
tion of  an  extended  district.  "The  Canoe  Place  at  Matti- 
tuck" became  merely  the  dividing  line  between  Corchaug 
and  Occabauck.  For  many  years  tliereafier  property 
was  described  as  lying  in  Corchaug  or  Occabauck.  with 
the  names  of  the  adjacent  owners  east  and  west.  Con- 
sidering that  Corchaug  was  about  three  and  a  half  miles 


•Puckquashineck.  for  Pequa-shinne-auke.  meaning  "open 
level  land."  has  become  Pequash  Neck.  This  is  one  of  the 
frequent  instances  where  similarity  of  sound  has  led  to  the 
substitution  of  an  English  word  for  an  Indian  syllable  of  en- 
tirely different  meaning. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  29 

in  extent  and  the  First  Division  in  Occabauck  about  nine 
miles,  it  will  be  seen  that  it  is  a  difficult  matter  to  locate 
precisely  the  lands  mentioned  in  the  old  records  and  con- 
veyances, requiring  much  careful  study.  Gradually  the 
name  Mattituck  reasserted  itself  and  a  lot  of  land  would 
be  occasionally  described  as  lying  in  the  parish  or  village 
of  Mattituck.  but  this  did  not  become  a  common  practice 
until  recent  times.  The  new  deeds  usually  repeated  the 
descriptions  of  the  old  and  as  late  as  fifty  years  ago  Mat- 
tituck property  was  frequently  described  as  lying  in 
Cutchogue  or  Aquebogue  in  Southold  Town. 

In  i66r,  when  these  three  great  divisions  of  common 
lands  were  ordered,  there  were  fifty-one  heads  of  fami- 
lies in  Southold  entitled  to  share  in  the  allotment.  Their 
rights  or  shares  were  in  proportion  to  their  services  and 
payments  in  the  establishment  of  the  Town  and  probably 
also  to  the  size  of  their  families.  The  Southold  Records 
do  not  state  definitely  the  basis  of  apportionment.  The 
basis  was  probably  the  same,  however,  as  in  the  New 
Haven  Colony,  and  in  Xew  Haven*  *Ttt  was  agreed 
that  every  planter  in  the  towne  shall  have  a  proportion 
of  land  according  to  the  proportion  of  estate  wch  he  hath 
given  in,  and  number  of  heads  in  his  famyly." 

In  the  three  divisions  there  were  122  lots  or  shares 
divided  between  these  fifty-one  individuals,  some  having 
one  lot,  some  as  many  as  six  or  eight.  Each  man  gave 
in  his  name  in  writing,  making  choice  between  the  three 
divisions.  Some  men  had  lots  in  two  dividends,  none  in 
all  three.  The  men  in  each  of  the  three  "squadrons" 
drew  lots  for  choice  of  lands  within  the  dividends.    One 


"New  Haven  Colonial  Records,  Vol.  I.,  p.  27. 


30  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK, 

having  right  to  two  or  three  or  more  lots  usually  selected 
lots  adjoining,  but  this  was  not  a  uniform  practice. 

There  were  sixteen  owners  and  forty  lots  in  Oyster- 
ponds,  twenty-one  owners  and  forty-four  lots  in  Cor- 
chaug  and  nineteen  owners  and  thirty-eight  lots  in  Occa- 
bauck. 

The  Corchaug  owners  were  as  follows : 

*William  Wells    3  lots 

Barnabas   Horton    3  " 

*William  Furrier 3  " 

Barnabas  Wynes,  Sr 2  " 

Barnabas  Wynes,  Jun 2  " 

*John  Elton    3  " 

*Jeremiah   Vale    3  " 

Richard  Terry    2  " 

*Thomas  Reeves   2  " 

Robert   Smyth    i  " 

*John  Booth 2  " 

*  John  Corwin 3  " 

*Samuel  King   i  " 

^Joseph  Youngs,  Jun i  " 

Richard  Benjamin   2  " 

Thomas    Mapes    3  " 

Thomas  Brush   i  " 

*Philemon  Dickeson 2  " 

Benjamin   Horton    2  " 

Widow   Cooper    3  " 

Thomas  Terrv   i  " 


*Those  whose  names  are  marked  with  the  asterisk  above 
selected  lots  lying  between  Manor  Hill  and  the  Riverhead  Town 
line. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  3 1 

The  Occabauck  owners  were  as  follows : 

William  Wells    3  lots 

John   Budd    4  " 

*John    Swasey    4  " 

Joseph  Horton   3  " 

*John  Tuthill   3  " 

John  Tucker    2  " 

*Thomas   Mapes    2  " 

Barnabas  Horton 2  " 

John  Conckelyne,  Jun 2  " 

Widow    Cooper 2  " 

*  William  Halliock  2  " 

Barnabas  Wynes,  Sen i  " 

Richard  Terry   i  " 

Thomas  Terry    i  " 

Edward  Petty   2     " 

*Richard   Clarke    i  " 

Samuell   King    i  " 

Joseph  Sutton   * i  " 

Henry    Case    i  " 

The  Occabauck  lots  were  large,  extending  from 
Sound  to  Bay,  forty  rods  wide,  each  containing  two 
hundred  and  fifty  acres  or  more. 

Contrary  to  the  prevalent  belief  the  Curchaug  lots 
did  not  extend  from  Sound  to  Bay,  but  were  divided  by 
the  King's  Highway.  The  lots  north  of  the  highway 
were  about  thirty  rods  wide  on  the  road,  most  of  them 
tapering   towards  -the    Sound,   and   embraced   from   one 


*Those  whose  names  are  marked  with  the  asterisk  above 
selected  lots  lying  between  Manor  Hill  and  the  Riverhead  Town 
line. 


^2  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

hundred  to  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres  each.  South 
of  the  highway  the  Corchaug  land  hes  in  six  large 
^'necks"  separated  from  each  other  by  creeks  opening 
from  the  Bay.  These,  in  order  from  east  to  west,  are 
Poole's  Neck,  Robin's  Island  Neck,  Corchaug  Neck,  Fort 
Neck,  Pessapunck  Neck  and  Reeve's  Neck.  Poole's 
Neck  became  the  property  of  William  Wells,  and  is  now- 
owned  by  the  Fleet  family,  his  lineal  descendants.  Rob- 
in's Island  Neck,  now  the  site  of  the  village  of  New 
Suffolk  and  of  much  of  the  village  of  Cutchogue,  fell  to 
John  Booth.  The  Corchaug  and  Fort  Necks  had  been 
divided  before  1661  into  many  20-acre  lots.  These  two 
necks  were  the  home  ground  of  the  Indians  in  the  vicin- 
ity. On  the  one  was  their  village  and  on  the  other  a 
stockade  or  fort  where  the  women  and  children  were 
guarded  in  time  of  conflict  with  hostile  tribes.  A  hollow 
in  the  ground,  some  three  or  four  rods  across,  sur- 
rounded by  traces  of  a  circular  embankment  still  marks 
the  site  of  this  fort  on  the  eastern  side  of  the  neck,  near 
the  creek  that  separates  it  from  Robin's  Island  Neck. 
The  settlers  found  these  necks  already  cleared  for  the 
most  part,  and  this  arable  land  amid  the  adjoining 
stretches  of  unbroken  forest  was  very  precious.  For 
many  years  a  twenty  acre  lot  in  this  "Old  Indian  Field" 
or  "Corchaug  Broad  Field,"  as  it  was  called,  was  more 
valuable  than  hundreds  of  acres  of  woodland.  These 
lots  frequently  changed  hands  by  way  of  sale  or  ex- 
change, and  early  in  the  i8th  century  were  owned 
chiefly  by  members  of  the  Horton  family,  who  also  held 
a  number  of  lots  across  the  highway  in  the  North  Divi- 
dend. 


CHAPTER  II. 

THE    OCCUPATION    OF    THE    LAND. 

In  the  preceding  chapter  a  brief  account  has  been 
given  of  the  earhest  ownership  of  the  first  four  necks 
in  the  Corchaug  South  Dividend.  We  come  now  to 
the  two  necks  that  He  within  the  village  of  Mattituck, 
namely,  Pessapuncke  Neck  and  Reeve's  Neck.  A  much 
fuller  account  of  the  ownership  and  settlement  of  these 
is  now  to  be  given.  The  Pessapuncke  Neck  was  allotted 
in  the  division  of  1661  to  John  Booth  and  the  great  neck 
(Reeve's)  between  the  Pessapuncke  and  the  Canoe 
Place  was  chosen  as  the  three  lots  of  William  Purrier. 
Purrier  already  held  the  meadow  on  the  western  border 
of  this  neck,  and  his  choice  of  land  was  probably  influ- 
enced by  that  circumstance. 

The  Pessapuncke  neck  takes  its  name  from  the  lo- 
cation upon  it  of  an  Indian  "sweating  place"  somewhere 
near  the  water.  The  Pessapuncke  was  the  Indians' 
Turkish  bath.  Roger  Williams  says  of  it,  in  his  "Key 
to  Languages  in  America,"  "This  Hot-house  is  a  kind  of 
a  little  cell  or  cave,  six  or  eight  foot  over,  round,  made 
on  the  side  of  a  hill  (commonly  by  some  Rivulet  or 
Brooke)  into  this  frequently  the  men  enter  after  they 
have  exceedingly  heated  it  with  store  of  wood,  laid  up 
on  a  heap  of  stones  in  the  middle.  When  they  have 
taken  out  the  fire  the  stones  keep  still  a  great  heat.    Ten, 


34  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

twelve,  twenty,  more  or  lesse,  enter  at  once  starke  naked, 
leaving  their  coats,  small  breeches  (or  aprons)  at  the 
doore,  with  one  to  keepe  all ;  here  do  they  sit  round 
these  hot  stones  an  houre  or  more,  taking  tobacco,  dis- 
coursing and  sweating  together;  which  sweating  they 
use  for  two  ends ;  First,  to  cleanse  their  skins ;  Secondly, 
to  purge  their  bodies,  which  doubtlesse  is  a  great  means 
of  preserving  them,  and  recovering  them  from  diseases, 
especially  from  the  French  disease,  which  by  sweating 
and  some  potions  they  perfectly  and  speedily  cure :  when 
they  come  forth  (which  is  a  matter  of  admiration)  I 
have  seen  them  runne  (Summer  and  Winter)  into  the 
brookes  to  coole  them,  without  the  least  hurt." 

The  Pessapuncke  Neck  property,  falling  to  John 
Booth,  extended  on  the  highway  from  Manor  Hill  until 
it  adjoined  the  land  of  William  Furrier  at  the  east  line 
of  Philip  W.  Tuthill's  property.  The  Hill  now  known 
as  Manor  Hill  was  at  first  called  Booth's  Hill  and  so 
for  a  hundred  years  or  more.  The  name  "Manor  Hill" 
came  intO'  use  after  the  purchase  of  "the  Manor"  about 
the  year  1735.  The  Manor*  was  the  name  given  to  a 
large  tract  near  Booth's  Hill,  extending  from  highway 


*The  use  of  the  name  "Manor,"  to  designate  a  tract  of  land 
held  in  common  by  a  number  of  proprietors,  early  became 
familiar  in  this  region,  though  it  is  a  peculiar  use  of  a  word 
that  properly  signifies  the  estate  on  which  stands  the  mansion 
of  a  lord  or  other  noble  personage.  This  peculiar  usage  perhaps 
arose  in  this  way:  The  Manor  of  St.  George,  now  part  of 
Brookhaven  Town,  was  patented  to  Col.  Wm.  Smith,  in  1693.  In 
1721  twenty  men  of  Southold  Town,  chiefly  Mattituck  men, 
bought  a  large  tract  of  six  or  seven  thousand  acres  from  Col. 
Smith's  son,  and  this  tract  was  held  by  them  and  their  heirs  in 
common  until  it  was  divided  in  1793.  These  owners  referred  to 
this  as  their  "Manor  land,"  and  so  "Manor  land"  came  to  mean 
land  held  in  common  by  several  proprietors. 


36  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

to  Sound,  which  was  purchased  by  a  number  of  pro- 
prietors and  held  by  them  in  common  and  devoted  to  pas- 
turage. 

Booth  sold  the  Pesapunck  Neck  to  Thomas  Giles^ 
merchant,  in  1677,  ^^^  Giles  soon  sold  to  the  first  David 
Gardiner  of  Gardiner's  Island.  Representatives  of  the- 
Gardiner  family  lived  on  this  valuable  property  for  sev- 
eral generations.  The  farm  then  passed  through  several 
hands  until  it  came,  about  1820,  into  the  hands  of  Isaac 
Conckling,  where  he,  and  his  son  George  L.  after  him,, 
resided  for  years.  The  land  was  long  known  as  Gar- 
diner's Neck.  In  1841  the  western  half  was  sold  to- 
John  Wells  and  is  now  the  property  of  Henry  Gilder- 
sleeve.  The  lower  part  of  the  eastern  half  was  long- 
owned  and  farmed  by  D.  W.  Hall,  and  is  now  the  beau- 
tiful country  place  of  Mrs.  Charity  Mould,  of  Brooklyn. 

William  Furrier's  property  adjoining  John  Booth's,, 
standing  for  three  lots,  comprised  something  over  four 
hundred  acres,  extending  on  the  highway  from  Booth'.s^ 
line  to  the  Canoe  Place  considerably  more  than  a  mile. 
It  will  be  remembered  that  the  Canoe  Place  lay  nearly 
a  quarter  of  a  mile  west  of  the  present  centre  of  the  vil- 
lage. The  northern  boundary  of  Purrier's  land  west  of 
the  Church  was  not  the  Riverhead  road,  but  the  north 
road.  His  property  therefore  embraced  a  triangle  be- 
tween the  two  roads  including  the  sites  of  the  Presby- 
terian and  Methodist  Episcopal  Churches  and  the  bury- 
ing-ground  and  the  properties  fronting  on  both  sides  of 
Pacific  Street.  Purrier  describes  this  land  as  follows  :* 
"All  that  neck  of  Land  as  it  Iveth  betweene  his  meadowe 


*Southold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  I.,  p.  48. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


37 


at  Mattituck  and  John  Tuthill's  meadow  on  the  South- 
west side  adjoyninge  to  the  canoe  place  viddct  where 
they  drawe  on  the  canoes  into  Mattituck  Pond : — but- 
tinge  in  the  Northwest  on  the  Land  of  Joseph  Youngs 
Junr  Philemon  Dickinson,  Thomes  Reeve  and  William 
Wells :  a  greate  ffresh  pond  lying  within  the  said  lands 
of  the  said  William  Purrier,  Thomas  Reeve  and  William 
Wells."      Youngs,    Dickerson,    Reeve    and    Wells    were 


MARRATOOKA   I.AKE. 

across  the  highway  in  the  Xorth  Dividend.  The  "greate 
ffresh  pond"  mentioned  is  the  beautiful  lake,  covering 
about  sixty  acres,  to  which  ^Ir.  Chas.  W.  Wickham 
has  given  the  euphonious  name  of  Marratooka,  calling 
his  farm,  which  is  part  of  the  original  Purrier  property, 
"Marratooka  Farm,"  sending  far  and  wide  the  deserv- 
edly famous  "^Marratooka  butter,"  and  harvesting  from 
the  lake  annually  a  fine  crop  of  "Marratooka  ice." 

When  these   lands  were  allotted  the   lake  lay  north 
of  the  highwav.     The  transfer  of  the  highway  to   the 


38  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

north  side  of  the  lake,  fifty  years  later,  has  been  spoken 
of  above.  Probably  the  earlier  route  was  at  first  selected 
because  the  lake  was  more  accessible  as  a  watering  place 
from  the  south  side.  When  the  highway  was  transferred 
the  adjoining  land,  if  already  cleared  and  built  upon,  re- 
mained in  the  possession  of  the  occupant.  In  cases 
where  the  land  next  to  the  highway  was  not  yet  im- 
proved the  boundary  lines  appear  to  have  moved  with 
the  highway  without  damages  paid  to  those  whose  prop- 
erties were  curtailed  or  assessment  upon  those  whose 
acres  were  increased.  Thus  very  many  acres  of  land  in 
the  midst  of  Mattituck  which  today  are  held  at  twelve 
or  fifteen  hundred  dollars  an  acre  were  shifted  from  one 
owner  to  another  as  of  little  or  no  value.  When  Wil- 
liam Furrier  died,  in  1675,  his  "farme  at  Mattituck  and 
the  meadow  at  Accoboack''  were  assessed  at  one  hun- 
dred pounds,  and  probably  a  large  share  of  this  was  for 
the  "meadow  at  Accoboack."  Some  idea  of  the  value 
of  the  land  may  be  derived  from  comparing  it  with  other 
items  in  the  same  inventory.  Ten  oxen  were  appraised 
at  £50  and  twenty  cows  at  about  £40.  That  is.  four  hun- 
dred acres  of  Mattituck  land  already  partly  cleared  and 
farmed  and  with  a  dwelling-house  and  barn,  together 
with  relatively  valuable  meadow  land,  was  worth  as 
much  as  twenty  oxen  or  fifty  cows.  Consequently  when 
the  highway  was  transferred,  the  opposite  owners  hav- 
ing not  yet  erected  dwellings  beside  the  road,  the  Furrier 
estate  was  largely  increased  without  cost. 

Furrier  before  his  death  placed  his  grandson  James 
Reeve  on  the  Mattituck  farm,  and  dying  made  him  his 
executor  and  chief  heir,  James  Reeve  and  his  descend- 
ants retained  most  of  the  great  farm  for  several  genera- 


■    A     HISTORY    OF     I^rATTITUCK.  39 

tions  and  also  acquired  much  other  valuable  property 
in  the  town.  The  old  Reeve  homestead  stood  until  re- 
cent years  a  few  rods  west  of  the  present  residence  of 
Charles  W.  Wickham.  George  B.  Reeve,  of  the  sixth 
generation  from  ist  James  Reeve,  whose  farm  ex- 
tends from  the  lake  to  Peconic  Bay,  is  one  of  the  few 
men  in  Mattituck  residing  on  ancestral  property  that  has 
come  down  by  direct  inheritance  from  the  original  allot- 
ment of  1661.  The  adjoining  farm  to  the  west  is  owned 
by  Miss  Florence  B.  Reeve,  daughter  of  the  late  Isaiah 
B.  Reeve.  She  also,  of  the  seventh  generation  from  ist 
James  Reeve,  holds  title  handed  down  by  will  in  un- 
broken succession. 

Let  us  cross  the  highway  now  and  locate  so  much  of 
the  North  Dividend  in  Corchaug  as  lay  within  the  limits 
of  modern  Mattituck.  As  indicated  in  William  Furrier's 
record,  quoted  above,  Joseph  Youngs,  Jr.,  Philemon 
Dickerson,  Thomas  Reeve  and  Wm.  Wells  owned  the 
lots  or  "ranges"  extending  from  the  highway  to  the 
Sound  next  east  of  Mattituck  Creek,  in  the  order  named. 
Joseph  Youngs,  Jr.,  a  son  of  Pastor  John  Youngs,  se- 
lected the  lot  nearest  the  Creek.  Youngs'  is  called  in 
the  Records  a  "first  lot,"  Dickerson's  and  Reeve's  were 
"second  lots,"  and  Wells'  a  "third  lot."  A  first  lot  was 
a  single  lot,  a  second  lot  was  two  lots  and  a  third  was 
three  lots.  A  first,  or  single  lot,  was  about  thirty  rods 
wide  on  the  highway.  Joseph  Youngs'  lot,  being  next 
to  the  Creek  with  its  very  irregular  shore  line,  was  of 
necessity  much  wider  on  the  highway,  extending  indeed 
almost  half  a  mile  from  the  Canoe  Path  to  about  the 
corner  of  Brown's  or  Wickham's  Lane.  Its  east  line 
kept  closer  to  the  north  than  Brown's  Lane  does,  and 


40  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

can  be  distinctly  traced  in  the  remains  of  an  old  hedge 
that  appears  just  north  of  the  Long  Creek  bridge,  fol- 
lows the  Howell  Road  to  Wm.  Robinson's  place,  then 
strikes  through  the  woods  and  emerges  on  the  North 
Road  between  the  places  of  the  late  Joshua  Terry  and 
Thos.  H.  Reeve,  passing  along  the  east  line  of  the 
Helfrich  place,  now  the  property  of  Nat.  S.  Tuthill. 

Joseph  Youngs,  Jr.,  never  settled  on  this  property, 
but  dying  early  left  it  to  his  widow,  Sarah,  a  daughter 
©f  1st  Barnabas  Wines.  Sarah  sold  this  lot  to  her 
brother,  2d  Barnabas  Wines,  in  1684.  The  deed  of  sale*  is 
interesting  on  several  accounts,  especially  because  of  the 
light  it  sheds  on  the  relations  of  the  Indians  with  the 
whites  at  that  early  day.  An  abstract  of  the  deed  fol- 
lows .'  "Be  it  known  unto  all  men  by  these  presents  yt  I, 
Sarah  Yongs  of  Southold,  ye  relect  weidow  of  Joseph 
Yongs  leat  of  Southold  aforesaid  deceased,  for  the  sum 
of  thirty-six  pounds  ten  shillings  have  demised  granted 
and  sould  unto  my  well  beloved  [brother]  Barnabas 
Wines,  A  certaine  tract  of  Land  lying  and  being  at 
Mattatuck  being  a  first  lott  in  Cautchehaug  devident  con- 
taining one  hundred  and  twelve  acres  more  or  less, 
bounded  on  the  west  side  by  the  Mattatuck  Creek — on 
the  North  by  the  North  beach — on  the  east  by  a  lott  be- 
longing to  Peter  Dickerson,  and  on  the  South  by  the 
high  road  way,  reserving  onely  the  Indians  right  and  in- 
trest  therein  for  four  yeares  according  to  his  agreement 
and  bargain,  and  the  yearly  rent  he  is  to  pay  for  it  I  re- 
serve to  myself." 

2d  Barnabas  Wines  had  gone  to  Elizabethtown,  N,  J., 


♦Southold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  I.,  p.  392. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  4I 

in  1665  and  there  remained  for  some  twenty  years.  He 
returned  to  Southold  about  the  time  of  the  purchase  of 
this  property  from  his  sister,  and  it  is  probable  that  he 
took  up  his  residence  on  the  upper  part  of  this  tract. 
Dying  in  171 5  he  left  his  "farm  at  Mattetuck"  to  his 
€ldest  son,  3rd  Barnabas.  The  will  was  drawn  in  1708 
and  the  lot  at  Mattatuck  was  already  a  farm.  3rd  Bar- 
nabas ended  his  days,  a  very  old  man,  in  1762  on  his 
two-hundred  acre  farm  next  east  of  Alvah's  Lane,  a 
second  lot  chosen  by  his  grandfather  in  1661  and  left  in 
^  1762  to  \\'ines  Osborn,  grandson  of  3rd  Barnabas. 
But  in  his  earlier  years  3rd  Barnabas  occupied  the  farm 
next  to  the  creek  in  Mattituck,  and  he  was  suc- 
ceeded there  by  his  son,  4th  Barnabas.  The  home- 
stead was  isolated,  being  far  from  the  highway, 
in  the  neighborhood  of  the  present  residence  of  ]\Irs. 
Joshua  Terry.  The  deep  hollow  back  of  Mrs.  Terry's 
house  was  know-n  as  "Ivy  Hollow."  Both  3rd  and  4th 
Barnabas  Wines  wdiile  dwelling  near  the  creek  added 
a  sea-faring  life  to  their  farming  and  captained  sloops 
which  plied  between  New  York  and  Mattituck  Creek. 
The  upper  part  of  this  lot  next  to  the  Creek  was  held 
by  the  Wines  family  until  after  1800  when  it  was  sold, 
the  family  holding  the  lot  further  east,  purchased  by 
4th  Barnabas  somewhere  about  1725,  on  the  lower 
part  of  which  James  H.  Wines  of  the  seventh  genera- 
tion from  1st  Barnabas  now  resides. 

The  lower  part  of  the   lot  next  to  the  Creek  was 
€arly  sold.    In  1719*  Joseph  Goldsmith,  blacksmith,  pur- 


•Southold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  II.,  p.  479.  Mr.  Case  is  mis- 
taken in  his  note  here,  locating  this  plot  on  the  North  Road 
•"directly  in  front  of  the  house  of  Joshua  Terry." 


42  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

chased  from  3d  Barnabas  Wines  eleven  and  a  half  acres 
on  the  highway,  extending  to  the  Creek.  This  was  sub- 
stantially the  Mattituck  house  property,  extending  far 
enough  eastward  to  embrace  the  home  of  John  C.  Wells. 
The  ground  east  of  Mr.  Wells'  house  is  black  with  the 
traces  of  Blacksmith  Goldsmith's  forge  of  two  hundred 
years  ago. 

At  the  time  of  this  sale  Wines  still  held  the  strip  of 
land  to  the  west  extending  to  the  Canoe  Path,  between 
the  highway  and  the  Creek.  There  are  no  conveyances 
recorded,  but  in  course  of  time  both  the  blacksmith's 
property  and  the  land  between  it  and  the  Canoe  Path 
were  in  the  hands  of  the  Hubbard  family,  and  some  time 
before  the  revolutionary  war  John  Hubbard  was  keeping 
his  tavern  on  the  present  site  of  the  Mattituck  house. 
By  another  transfer  not  recorded  the  land  east  of  the 
blacksmith's  purchase,  extending  from  the  highway  to 
Long  Creek,  was  already  in  the  possession  of  Deacon 
Thomas  Reeve,  and  remained  in  his  family  until  recent 
times. 

East  of  this  first  lot  was  the  "second"  (double)  lot 
of  Philemon  Dickerson,  east  of  this  the  double  lot  of 
Thomas  Reeve,  and  east  of  this  the  "third"  (triple)  lot 
of  William  Wells.  These  three  properties  extended  on 
the  highway  from  the  west  side  of  Brown's  or  Wick- 
ham's  Lane  to  H.  B.  Lupton's  west  line,  a  distance  of 
about  two  hundred  and  thirty  rods,  which  is  slightly  in 
excess  of  thirty  rods  for  each  of  the  seven  single  lots 
included.  It  is  impossible  to  determine  the  partition 
lines  with  absolute  certainty,  but  a  careful  study  of  all 
available  wills  and  deeds  relating  to  these  properties 
leads  to  the  following  conclusion :     The  Dickerson  and 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  43 

Reeve  lots  covered  the  B.  S.  Conklin,  W.  H.  Pike  and 
James  Reeve  (now  Wm.  Broderick)  properties  on  the 
highway,  two  double  lots  of  sixty  rods  each.  The  divi- 
sion between  them  ran  midway  in  W.  H.  Pike's  farm. 
The  Wells  "third  lot"  extended  from  Wm.  Broderick's 
east  line  to  H.  B.  Lnpton's  west,  measuring  some  twenty- 
five  rods  in  excess  of  the  regular  thirty  rods  for  each 
single  lot.  Such  irregularities  in  measurement  were  by 
no  means  uncommon.  Thomas  Mapes,  the  town  sur- 
veyor, seems  to  have  exercised  a  large  discretion  in  lay- 
ing out  the  lots.  Some  are  very  scant  and  others  very 
broad.  W^illiam  Wells  was  the  largest  land-holder  in 
the  town  and  if  extra  widths  were  coming  to  anybody 
they  were  eoming  to  him. 

That  the  dividing  line  between  Dickerson  and  Reeve 
should  have  passed  through  the  middle  of  an  old  farm 
such  as  that  of  W.  H.  Pike  seems  improbable  to  one 
unacquainted  with  the  facts,  but  presents  no  difficulties 
when  it  is  known  that  both  these  properties  came  very 
early  into  the  hands  of  the  Reeve  family  and  were  re- 
garded as  one  great  tract.  The  line  between  them  was 
never  fenced  and  the  two  double  lots  were  eventually 
divided  into  three  large  farms. 

The  Dickersons  never  lived  in  Mattituck.  Their  lot 
passed  by  will  to  the  sons  of  the  second  generation,  and 
then  by  some  unrecorded  transfer  the  western  half  of  it 
came  into  the  hands  of  the  Reeves.  It  has  been  seen 
that  Deacon  Thomas  Reeve  owned  in  17 19  much  of  the 
lower  part  of  the  lot  next  to  the  Creek.  Even  earlier  he 
owned  the  whole  of  this  great  lot  of  the  Dickersons.  He 
built  his  house  a  few  rods  from  the  present  residence  of 
Bryant  S.  Conklin.     He  died  there  in  1761  at  the  age  of 


44  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

yy,  was  succeeded  by  his  only  son,  Thomas,  who  died 
there  in  1790.  This  Thomas  was  succeeded  by  his  son 
Thomas,  who,  dying  in  1823,  left  the  upper  half  to  his 
son  Benjamin,  and  the  lower  half  to  his  son  Luther. 
Luther  lived  in  the  old  homestead  until  his  death  in 
1842  and  was  succeeded  by  his  widow  Elmyra  who  lived 
to  be  86  years  of  age,  dying  in  1880.  The  widow  El- 
myra Reeve  and  her  son  Thomas  sold  this  land  in  many 
parcels  ranging  from  i  to  45  acres,  about  1854  and 
1855.  Benjamin  built  him  a  house  on  the  north  road, 
and  his  grandson  Thos.  H.  now  lives  on  land  that  has 
been  occupied  by  his  family  for  about  two  hundred  years-. 

As  early  as  1788  the  middle  farm,  on  the  southern 
end  of  which  \<!\x\.  W.  Pike  lives,  was  in  possession  of 
Barnabas  Terrell,  Esq.  His  title  cannot  be  traced,  but 
presumably  he  inherited  as  a  Reeve  descendant  for  the 
first  of  the  Terrells  in  Southold,  Thomas,  married  Mary 
the  daughter  of  ist  Thomas  Reeve.  Barnabas  Terrell, 
Esq.,  died  in  1791  and  appears  to  have  been  succeeded 
in  ownership  of  the  lower  portion  of  this  lot  by  his 
granddaughter  Keziah  (Horton)  Reeve.  She  and  her 
husband,  Deacon  John  Reeve,  sold  in  1805  to  William 
H.  Pike  the  grandfather  of  the  present  owner.  The  up- 
per portion  has  changed  hands  many  times  and  has  been 
■divided  into  very  small  holdings,  including  the  farms 
of  Patrick  Drum,  Perry  S.  Robinson,  John  Muttit,  Pat- 
rick McNulty  and  the  late  Michael  Garvey. 

The  eastern  part  of  the  Reeve  lot  was  owned  wholly 
•or  in  part  by  William  Reeve,  who  died  in  1696,  a  son  of 
1st  Thomas.  This  appears  from  a  release  given  by 
Thomas  Terrell  in  1704  in  the  following  terms:  "These 
tnay  certifie  to  all  persons  to  whom  It  may  come  that  I 


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46  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

Thomas  Terell  Mason  doe  acknoUedge  that  WiUiam 
Revs  desesed  did  formorlly  purchas  a  pasell  of  saltte 
medow  of"  me.*  ...  .  that  did  formorlly  belong  to 
me  but  was  within  his  the  above  said  Reevs  Range  be- 
tween the  wollfe  pit  swamp  and  his  froont  boonds."* 
The  wolf  pit  swamp,  now  a  beautiful  lake  on  the  prop- 
erty of  Capt.  Ellsworth  Tuthill,  locates  the  range  of 
William  Reeve.  This  tract  or  part  of  it  seems  to  have 
been  owned  by  a  Daniel  Reeve  in  1736,  but  there  is  no 
further  trace  of  ownership  until  1788  when  Obadiah 
Hudson  f  appears  as  owner,  mortgaging  this  property  to 
Jared  Landon  and  John  Wells,  Esquires,  for  the  large 
sum  of  ^900.    In  the  mortgage  it  is  described  as  "a  cer- 


*The  above  is  quoted  from  the  original  paper  in  possession 
of  George  B.  Reeve,  of  Mattituck.  An  abstract,  with  more 
orthodox  spelling,  is  in  Southold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  II.,  p.  107. 

tObadiah  Hudson  was  probably  a  son  of  Richard,  son  of 
Jonathan,  of  Shelter  Island.  Richard  was  an  elder  brother  of 
Samuel,  who  was  the  grandfather  of  Deacon  Joseph,  of  Frank- 
linville,  the  great-grandfather  of  Wm.  M.  and  Jos.  B.,  of  Mat- 
tituck. Obadiah  left  several  children,  and  his  descendants  are 
many  and  honorable,  but  none  is  living  in  Mattituck.  Like 
others  of  the  revolutionary  refugees,  he  suffered  financial  losses 
from  which  he  never  recovered,  and  his  fine  estate  was  sacri- 
ficed. He  died  in  1791.  His  son,  Obadiah,  who  married  Chloe, 
daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Chloe  (Gardiner)  Pike,  lived  for  a 
time  in  the  old  house  near  the  Lake.  2d  Obadiah  is  said 
to  have  died  at  Commac,  L.  I.,  in  1846.  3rd  Obadiah,  born 
at  Mattituck  in  1797,  was  grandfather  of  Miss  Emma  I.  Hudson, 
of  Peekskill,  N.  Y.,  to  whom  the  author  is  indebted  for  much 
interesting  information  concerning  the  family.  A  grandson  of 
3rd  Obadiah  is  Commander  William  Henry  Hudson  Souther- 
land,  U.  S.  Navy.  He  performed  conspicuous  service  in  the 
late  Spanish  war,  in  command  of  the  "Eagle."  '  Joseph,  a 
younger  son  of  1st  Obadiah,  baptized  in  Mattituck  in  1797,  had  a 
distinguished  son.  Captain  William  Leverett  Hudson,  U.  S. 
Navy,  who  commanded  the  "Niagara,"  the  ship  that  laid  the 
Atlantic  cable  in  1858.    He  died  in  New  York  in  1862. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


47 


tain  tract  or  Parcel  of  Land  and  Meadows  with  all  the 
Buildings  and  Tan  fats  thereon  erected  situate  in  that 
part  of  the  Township  of  Southold  called  Alattituck."  It 
is  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Sound  and  on  the  south 
by  the  Pond.  The  dwelling  house  was  south  of  the 
road,  near  the  present  site  of  Geo.  H.  Fischer's  ice 
house,    the   same   that   became   the   dwelling  of   Elymas 


THE   JAMES   WICKHAM   REEVE   HOUSE. 
The   home  of  Mattituck's  first   Sunday-school. 

Reeve  in  1825.  It  looks  as  though  this  property  had 
been  improved  and  the  house  built  before  the  high- 
way was  moved  in  1710.  The  chain  of  ownership 
is  lost  again  but  appears  next  with  Thomas  and 
Joseph  P.  Wickham  in  possession  between  1790  and 
1820. 

For  a   few  vears  before  his,  father's  death,  and  be- 


48  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

fore  he  moved  to  the  North  Road,  Benjamin  Reeve 
owned  six  acres  in  the  southwest  corner  of  this  prop- 
erty north  of  the  highway,  and  dwelt  in  the  house  now 
owned  by  Wm,  Broderick,  that  from  1822  until  his  death 
was  the  residence  of  the  late  James  Wickham  Reeve. 
This  house  was  built  about  1790  by  the  Wickhams  and 
became  the  home  of  one  of  the  first  Sunday  Schools  in 
the  country. 

The  founder  of  this  Sunday  School  was  Phebe 
Moore,  the  young  wife  of  Joseph  P.  Wickham,*  mar- 
ried in  1791.  She  was  the  seventeenth  child  of  Dr. 
Micah  Moore  of  Southold.  Her  mother,  Abigail  Hemp- 
stead, at  the  time  of  her  marriage  to  Dr.  Moore  was  the 
widow  of  Captain  John  Ledyard  and  mother  of  John 
Ledyard  the  famous  traveler  and  explorer.  Phebe,  the 
half-sister  of  this  remarkable  man,  was  a  remarkable 
woman.  She  was  genuinely  and  deeply  converted  at  the 
age  of  eleven  and  throughout  her  life  displayed  the 
graces  of  a  beautiful  Christian  character.  In  four  places 
where  she  made  her  home  she  established  Sunday 
Schools.  The  first  of  these,  shortly  after  her  marriage, 
was  in  Mattituck.  Here  she  gathered  the  children  of 
the  neighborhood  of  a  Sabbath  afternoon  and  taught 
them  from  the  Bible.     From  that  day  to  this,  a  period 


♦Joseph  P.  and  Phebe  (Moore)  Wickham  left  no  children. 
His  sister,  Parnel,  married  5th  James  Reeve,  and  became  the 
mother  of  the  late  James  W.  and  Irad  Reeve.  After  his  first 
wife's  early  death,  James  Reeve  married  Mehetabel  Downs, 
and  their  youngest  daughter  was  named  Phebe  Moore.  This 
Phebe  Moore  Reeve,  in  1827,  became  the  wife  of  Joseph  Parker 
Wickham,  son  of  Thomas,  and  nephew  of  the  Joseph  Parker 
Wickham  who  had  married  Phebe  Moore  in  1791.  This  Joseph 
Parker  Wickham,  by  his  second  wife,  Mary  C.  Taylor,  was  the 
father  of  Charles  W.  Wickham,  now  of  Mattituck. 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  49 

of  a  hundred  and  fifteen  years,  Mattituck  has  never  been 
without  a  Sunday  School. 

In  1822  James  Wickham  Reeve  bought  this  dwelling- 
house  with  six  acres  from  Benjamin  Reeve,  and  from 
John  Hubbard  he  bought  the  remainder  of  the  lower 
portion  of  the  range,  eighty-five  acres.  About  the  same 
time  his  father,  James  Reeve,  bought  the  upper  part, 
through  to  the  Sound,  from  John  Woodhull.  James 
Wickham  Reeve  owned  all  after  his  father's  death.  The 
property  has  been  much  divided.  The  portion  on  the 
highway  is  now  owned  and  farmed  by  \\'illiam  Brod- 
erick.  ^ 

The  three  lots  of  William  Wells  w^ere  divided  after 
his  death,  in  1671,  among  his  four  married  daughters. 
Gershom  Terry  and  his  wife  obtained  the  first  lot  to 
the  west.  John  Goldsmith  and  Anna  Wells,  his  wife,  the 
middle  lot.  The  eastern  lot.  the  extra  wide  one,  was 
divided  into  two  half-lots,  of  which  John  Tuthill,  Jr., 
and  Mehetable  Wells,  his  wife,  received  the  western  and 
Jonathan  Horton  and  Bethiah  Wells,  his  wife,  the  east- 
ern. These  half-lots  were  two  miles  long,  about  twenty- 
five  rods  wide  at  the  road  and  narrower  at  the  Sound. 

The  Gershom  Terry  lot,  corresponding  on  the  high- 
way to  the  Randolph,  Stewart  and  Jacob  A.  Brown 
places,  passed  by  will  to  David  Terry  in  1725.  John 
Wickham  bought  of  David  Terry.  Wickham  was  per- 
haps followed  by  John  Case.  In  1822  Benjamin  Gold- 
smith, son  of  Rev.  Benjamin,  was  in  possession.  The 
men  of  that  family  seldom  recorded  deeds,  though  they 
owned  much  land.  In  1839  the  southern  portion  up  to 
the  "Mill  Road,"  eighty  acres,  was  in  possession  of 
Thomas  Overton  and  was  bv  him  sold  to  Samuel  Brown. 


50  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

Samuel  Brown  lived  there  for  a  number  of  years  and 
sold  in  1854  to  Daniel  Reeve,  a  son  of  Benjamin  Reeve. 
Daniel  Reeve,  dying  in  1858,  left  this  fine  property 
jointly  to  his  brother  Richard  Steer  Reeve  and  his  sister 
Amanda  (Reeve)  Terry.  It  is  now  owned  by  Mrs. 
Rosalie  (Terry)  Randolph.  The  lot  now  the  residence 
of  Jacob  A,  Brown  was  sold  from  this  larger  property 
by  Daniel  Reeve  in  1856.  The  Stewart  property  is  also 
a  section   from   this. 

The  Wells  middle  lot,  now  owned  by  Charles  Benja- 
min on  the  south,  fell  to  John  and  Anna  (Wells)  Gold- 
smith. They  sold  to  Jonathan  Reeve  in  1684.  This 
Jonathan  was  a  son  of  ist  Thomas  Reeve  and  a  brother 
of  1st  James  who  then  owned  the  great  Furrier  estate 
south  of  the  highway.  The  highway  then  ran  south  of 
the  Lake,  and  the  house  of  Jonathan  Reeve  probably 
stood  on  the  hill  where  the  Wickham  cottage  now  is. 
Jonathan  died  in  1707.  His  widow,  Martha,  was  in 
possession  as  late  as  1725.  It  seems  impossible  to  dis- 
cover when  or  how  the  Benjamins  came  into  possession 
of  this  lot.  From  a  deed  for  adjacent  property  it  ap- 
pears that  John  Benjamin  was  the  owner  in  1776.  In 
1804  he  left  it  by  will  to  his  son  Isaiah.  The  north- 
side  of  this  property  was  sold  by  the  Benjamins  to  An- 
drew Gildersleeve  in  1862. 

How  the  Wines  family  came  into  possession  of  the 
two  large  half-lots  is  another  unanswerable  question 
for  lack  of  recorded  deeds.  John  and  Mehetable  (Wells) 
Tuthill  sold  the  western  half-lot,  next  to  Mill  Lane,  to 
John  Terry  in  1692.  Capt.  Jonathan  and  Bethiah 
(Wells)  Horton's  half-lot  descended  by  will  in  1707  to 
their  son  William.     In  1725  3d  Barnabas  Wines  owned 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  5 1 

one  of  these  half-lots,  probably  the  eastern.  In  1736 
his  holding  here  was  still  restricted  to  the  half-lot,  on 
which  he  was  then  residing.  Not  many  years  later  he 
owned  the  whole  lot  from  the  highway  to  the  Sound. 
He  died  in  1762  on  the  farm  next  east  of  Alvah's  Lane. 
His  son,  4th  Barnabas,  was  then  living  on  the  farm  next 
to  Mill  Lane. 

The  next  allotments  eastward  originally  belonged  to 
Matthias  Corwin  and  John  Elton.  They  were  "second" 
and  "third"  lots  respectively  and  together  extended  as 
far  as  Elijah's  Lane.  The  Corwin  property  covers  the 
Liipton  and  Davis  farms  on  the  highway,  the  farm  of 
J.  M.  Ltipton  on  the  Middle  Road,  the  Ed.  L.  Tuthill, 
Bond,  Burns  and  Hallock  farms  on  the  Oregon  Road. 
The  northern  part  of  the  farms  of  James  J.  Kirkup  and 
Philip  W.  Tuthill  also  lay  within  the  Corwin  lot,  which 
of  course  extended  to  the  old  highway.  Matthias  Cor- 
win, the  first  owner,  had  two  sons,  John  and  Theophilus. 
Theophilus  seems  to  have  settled  early  on  the  lot  in 
Mattituck,  locating  his  house  on  the  old  highway,  where 
James  J.  Kirkup's  house  stands.  There  2d  Theophilus 
died  in  1762,  in  his  eighty-fourth  year,  owning  the  land 
south  of  his  house,  which  had  been  acquired  by  purchase, 
extending  to  Gardiner's  or  Deep  Hole  Creek.  John,  the 
other  son  of  Matthias,  or  his  son  John,  came  later  to 
Mattituck  and  located  on  the  north  side  of  the  new  high- 
way, after  1710.  The  fact  that  the  Corwin  property  lay 
on  both  sides  of  the  present  highway  has  given  color  to 
the  prevalent  mistaken  idea  that  the  Cutchogue  lots  ex- 
tended from  Sound  to  Bay. 

The  Corwin  property  south  of  the  highway  was  muclv 
divided  by  will  and  sale.     Much  of  it  came  into  posses- 


52 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 


sion  of  the  descendants  of  John  Corvvin.  The  Kirkup 
farm  was  bought  by  James  Worth,  half  in  1807  and  half 
in  1825.  It  was  held  by  him  and  after  him  by  his  son 
John  until  1864,  when  it  was  sold  to  Frances  J.  Bryan, 
wife  of  Clark  Bryan  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  and  daugh- 
ter of   Charles   Reeve,   son  of   Irad,   son  of   5th   James. 


THE   OLD  CORWIN  HOUSE. 


Its  present  owner  came  into  possession  in  1880.  Corwin 
land  east  of  this  after  changes  hard  to  trace  became  the 
property  of  Capt.  Ira  Tuthill,  the  father  of  the  present 
owner.  The  Corwin  land  north  of  the  highway,  with 
the  exception  of  the  old  house  and  lot  in  the  southeast 
corner  next  west  of  La  Mont  Gould,  passed  to  George 
Howell  and  from  him  to  Parshall  Davis  who  sold  the 
"northside"  in   1828  to  John  Woodhull,  James  Hallock 


A     HISTORY     OF     M  ATTIt'L'CK.  53 

and  Rupert  Hallock,  and  in  1850  sold  the  lower  150 
acres  to  Josiah  Lupton.  Twenty  acres  on  the  eastern 
side,  now  the  Davis  farm,  were  sold  to  Wm.  F.  Lane  in 
1858. 

The  old  house  in  the  corner  of  the  lot  was  probably 
built  by  James  Corwin,  son  of  3rd  John,  in  17^13.  the 
year  of  his  marriage  to  Mchetable  Horton.  In  that 
year  James  Corwin  bought'''  "aboute  one  quarter  of  an 
acre  of  Land  in  Alattituck  purchased  of  John  Corwin 
[4th  John,  his  brother]  for  £12  in  hand  paid  adjoining- 
Southerly  to  the  highway  or  Road,  Easterly  to  the  lands 
of  Joshua  Clark."  This  lot  was  6  rods  and  12  feet  on 
the  front.  This  James  Corwin  was  proud  of  his  native 
place  and  describes  himself  in  the  town  records  as  "James 
Corwin  of  Mattituck."  But  like  many  others  he  left  the 
Island  at  the  beginning  of  the  Revolutionary  struggle, 
and  remained  away.  His  quarter  acre  passed  back  to 
his  brother.  Deacon  John.  There  Deacon  John  died  in 
1817,  and  there  his  son  IMajor  John  died  the  year  before 
his  father. 

The  John  Elton  third  lot  extends  to  Elijah's  lane  and 
comprises  the  Gould,  Mulford,  Corey,  Bergen  and  Geo. 
I.  Tuthill  properties  on  the  highway,  the  Jacob  A.  and 
Wm.  Austin  Tuthill  and  the  Robinson,  Wyckofif  and 
Duryee  farms  at  the  northside.  John  Elton  was  a  son- 
in-law  of  1st  Barnabas  Wines,  and  never  occupied  this 
property  w^hich  after  his  decease  was  sold  in  1677  by 
his  executor.  Rev.  Joshua  Hobart.  The  property  com- 
prised something  over  three  hundred  acres,  and,  though 
a  third  lot,  was  not  divided  into  three  regular  lots.    The 


*Southold  Printed  Records,   II.,  p.  212. 


54  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

western  half,  150  acres  came  into  possession  of  Samuel 
and  James  Cooper  of  Southampton,  who  sold  to  Samuel 
Clark  in  1700.  Clark  settled  there,  and  must  have  built 
immediately  on  the  highway,  for  after  the  road  was 
altered  he  owned  a  strip  of  land  on  the  south  side.  He 
was  succeeded  by  his  son  Joshua  on  the  southern  half  of 
the  property  and  his  son  William  on  the  northern  half. 
Joshua  Clark  lived  here  until  his  death  in  1789. 

Next  to  the  Clarks  was  a  narrow  strip,  16^  rods  on 
the  highway  and  10  rods  at  the  Sound,  called  in  the  deed 
of  sale  "threescore  acres,"  though  it  could  hardly  have 
been  over  fifty,  and  this  was  conveyed  to  Thomas 
Tusten,  of  whom  we  shall  have  occasion  to  say  more 
presently.  In  1684  Tusten  sold  this  to  David  Gardi- 
ner, who  two  years  before  had  bought  the  Pese- 
puncke  Neck. 

The  remaining  one  hundred  acres  passed  through 
several  hands  before  the  year  1700,  and  then  the  chain 
of  title  breaks.  All  of  this  Elton  property  came  into  the 
hands  of  the  Tuthill  family  before  1800,  and  the  later 
lines  of  title  down  to  the  present  owners  are  easily 
traced. 

From  Elijah's  Lane  to  Alvah's  Lane  there  were  five 
original  owners :  Thomas  Mapes,  one  lot,  Samuel  King, 
one  lot,  Jeremiah  Vail,  three  lots,  Benjamin  Horton,  two 
lots,  and  Barnabas  Horton,  three  lots.  Of  these  the 
Mapes,  King  and  Vail  holdings,  five  lots  in  all,  became 
later  "the  Manor,"  extending  from  Elijah's  Lane  to  the 
foot  of  Manor  Hill,  and  on  the  northside  embracing  the 
Wm.  Tuthill  and  Tyson  Hamilton  farms  and  the  farms 
of  F.  Asbury  Tuthill,  Tyson  Hamilton,  Jr.,  and  Isaac  N. 
Teed. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  55 

The  Mapes  lot,  next  east  of  Elijah's  Lane,  was  left 
by  Thomas  Mapes  by  will  to  his  son  Jabez.  The  lot  is 
described  in  the  will  as  lying  "against  the  old  field  at 
Curchauge."  This  indicates  that  the  Indian  field  which 
covered  most  of  the  Corchaug  and  Fort  Necks  did  not 
terminate  at  the  foot  of  Manor  Hill  but  reached  some 
distance  west  of  its  summit.  The  highway  of  course 
skirted  the  north  side  of  this  field,  taking  advantage  of 
a  route  already  cleared,  and  it  is  probable  that  the  bear- 
ing of  the  north  boundary  of  the  field  had  some  influence 
in  determining  the  trend  of  the  highway  to  the  south  side 
of  the  pond. 

The  Samuel  King  lot  next  east  of  Mapes'  was  sold 
in  1697  to  John  Osman,  planter.  Further  conveyances 
of  the  Mapes  and  King  lots  are  not  recorded,  but  these 
two  lots  appear  fifty  years  later  as  the  "New,  or  Terrill 
Manor."  They  were  probably  bought  by  Thomas  Ter- 
rill, and  by  him  sold  to  a  syndicate  who  held  them  as 
common  pasture  land. 

The  next  land  east,  the  third  lot  of  Jeremiah  Vail, 
extending  down  Manor  Hill  as  far  as  the  little  pond  at 
its  foot,  and  described  in  the  old  records  as  "butting  on 
the  small  lots  south,"  became,  not  long  after  1700,  the 
''Mapes  Manor,"  afterwards  sometimes  called  the  "Old 
Manor."  Before  1700  this  property  w^as  chiefly  owned 
by  Thos.  Tusten  and  Thos.  Mapes,  and  William  Mapes 
as  the  successor  of  his  father.  The  transfer  to  the  manor 
owners  is  not  recorded,  but  later  sales  of  rights  in  the 
Manors  show  that  all  of  the  leading  families  of  the 
neighborhood  were  represented.  The  rights  or  shares 
of  manor-land  were  five  acres,  undivided,  and  sold  in 
1 74 1  for  £8. 


56  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

Next  to  tlie  manor  lands  lay  the  second  or  double  lot 
of  Benjamin  Horton,  which  soon  passed  into  the  hands 
of  Thomas  Tusten,  a  blacksmith,  who  married  Priscilla, 
the  daughter  of  ist  Richard  Benjamin,  and  who,  though 
not  one  of  the  original  proprietors  soon  became  a  large 
land-holder.  Tusten  built  his  house  on  the  north  side 
of  the  highway  near  the  foot  of  Booth's  or  Manor  Hill, 
in  the  southwest  corner  of  this  lot.  He  appears  to  have 
been  succeeded  by  his  son  Thomas,  who  died  in  1736  in 
the  56th  year  of  his  age  and  is  buried  in  the  Mattituck 
church  yard.  This  second  Thomas  Tusten  let  most  of 
this  property  pass  from  his  hands  by  sale  before  his 
death  and  it  was  soon  in  possession  of  a  number  of  own- 
ers. The  northern  end  of  it  is  still  known  as  "Tusten," 
a  most  desirable  property  for  residence  and  cultivation, 
but  now  a  tangled  wilderness. 

We  have  now  passed  the  eastern  limits  of  Mattituck, 
but  as  a  matter  of  interest  the  names  of  the  original  land 
holders  in  the  North  Dividend  of  Corchaug  as  far  as  the 
old  Town  limits  are  given.  Next  to  the  Benjamin  Hor- 
ton, or  Tusten,  property  were  the  three  lots  of  Barnabas 
Horton,  extending  to  Alvah's  Lane.  East  of  Alvah's 
Lane  were  Barnabas  Wines,  Jr.,  2  lots,  Thomas  Mapes, 
2  lots,  Thomas  Terry,  i  lot,  Thomas  Cooper,  3  lots, 
Richard  Terry,  2  lots,  Robert  Smith,  i  lot,  Richard  Ben- 
jamin, 2  lots,  and  Barnabas  Wines,  2  lots. 

We  must  retrace  our  steps  westward  now,  and  view 
the  great  lots  west  of  the  Canoe  Place,  that  extended 
from  Sound  to  Bay.  The  holders  of  these  lots,  from 
the  Canoe  Place  to  the  present  Riverhead  Town  line^ 
were  Thomas  Mapes,  2  lots,  Richard  Clarke,  i  lot,  John 
Tuthill,  I  lot,  John  Swasey,  2  lots,  John  Tuthill,  2  lots. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  57 

Thomas  Mapes  thus  describes  his  land  :*  "One  divi- 
dent  in  Occabauck  land  lying-  next  and  adjoyninge  to 
the  Canough  place  by  Mattituck  pond,  being  in  bredth 
eight  score  pole — in  length  from  sea  to  sea — the  land  of 
Joseph  Youngs,  Junr.  west." 

This  magnificent  domain,  "in  length  from  sea  to 
sea,"  extended  westward  to  Cox's  Lane,  that  was  origin- 
ally the  private  road  to  the  Mapes  homestead  on  the 
"neck,"  and  was  long  known  as  Mapes'  Lane.  The 
width  of  this  double  lot  on  the  highway  was  far  more 
than  80  rods — in  fact  it  was  about  i6o  rods — but  this 
was  to  make  allowance  for  the  irregular  boundary  of 
the  creek,  as  with  Joseph  Youngs'  lot,  east,  and  is  not 
to  be  considered  an  instance  of  land  grabbing  on  the 
part  of  Mapes,  who  was  the  town  surveyor.  A  double 
lot  in  the  First  Division  of  Occabauck  usually  contained 
about  500  acres,  and  this  property  is  not  a  great  deal 
above  that  measure.  The  first  Thomas  Mapes  dwelt  on 
sixty  acres  now  a  part  of  the  farm  of  Chas.  W.  Wick- 
ham,  and  never  occupied  this  Occabauck  land.  Dying 
in  1687  he  left  it  to  his  children:  to  Thomas,  "half  that 
division  of  upland  and  meadow  on  the  west  side  of  Mat- 
tituck Creek;"  one-eighth  to  William,  one-eighth  to 
Jabez,  and  one-fourth  to  his  daughter  Abigail,  the  wife 
of  Thomas  Terrill.  He  had  three  other  married  daugh- 
ters, to  one  of  whom  he  left  fifty  acres  from  his  double 
lot  in  Corchaug,  a  little  east  of  Alvah's  Lane ;  to  an- 
other, two  sheep,  and  to  the  third,  his  "great  brass  ket- 
tle." As  showing  that  he  held  the  land  west  of  Matti- 
tuck Creek  in  comparatively  little  esteem,  it  may  be  men- 


•Southold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  I.,  p.  108. 


58  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

tioned  that  by  his  will  he  expressly  entailed  all  of  his 
land,  excepting  only  this,  "which  may  be  bouct,  sould 
or  exchanged." 

There  is  no  record  of  the  partition  of  this  land  among 
the  four  heirs.  Jabez  evidently  came  into  possession  of 
what  is  now  known  as  Cox's  Neck,  and  was  formerly 
known  as  Mapes'  Neck,  for  there  he  lived  and  died,  and 
there,  upon  his  death  in  1732,  he  was  succeeded  by  his 
son  Joseph.  Jabez  also  owned  50  acres  south  of  the 
Riverhead  road,  reaching  to  the  bay,  next  west  of  the 
Canoe  Place,  comprising  what  we  call  "South  America," 
for  he  sold  it  to  26.  James  Reeve  in  1725.  This  land  was 
bounded  on  the  west  by  Thomas  Terrill's  land.  In  those 
days  a  married  woman's  property  was  her  husband's. 
Land  left  by  will  to  her  was  usually  deeded  by  the  ex- 
ecutors to  her  husband,  and  when  it  was  sold  her  hus- 
band's signature  sufficed.  Thus  Abigail  Terrill's  inher- 
itance became  Thomas  Terrill's  property.  Terrill  ap- 
pears to  have  held  more  than  the  one-fourth  part  that 
was  willed  to  his  wife.  He  was  a  mason,  and  like  other 
men  who  supplemented  their  farming  with  trades  he  be- 
came wealthy  and  a  large  landholder,  and  it  seems  prob- 
able that  he  bought  much  of  2d  Thomas  Mapes'  share. 
He  owned  the  Vandenhove  property  (part  of  which  is 
now  in  possession  of  Rear  Admiral  Charles  Dwight  Sigs- 
bee,  U.  S.  N.,  and  on  the  other  half  of  which  Judge  H. 
F.  Haggarty  has  lately  built  a  handsome  residence),  the 
Hiising  farm,  and  the  land  at  Horton's  Creek  now  owned 
"by  Mrs.  John  C.  Wells.  He  also  owned  the  sixteen 
acres  in  Mattituck  woods  lately  purchased  by  Otto  P. 
Hallock,  and  probably  a  good  deal  of  the  land  east  of 
that  between  the  two  roads.     The  extensive  holdings  of 


A     IIISTORV     OF     MATTITUCK.  59 

the  Hubbards,  and  later  of  the  Shirleys,  between  the 
roads  and  also  south  of  the  Riverhead  road  were  in- 
herited by  John  Hubbard  in  1791  from  his  grandfather, 
Barnabas  Terrel,  or  Terrill,  who  was  the  grandson  or 
great-grandson  of  Thomas  and  Abigail  Terrill. 

Next  to  Mapes  Richard  Clarke  held  one  lot.  He 
removed  to  Elizabethtown,  N.  J.,  and  sold  this  lot  in 
1683  to  William  Coleman,  the  son-in-law  of  Mapes. 
""Coleman's  Rock"  off  the  Sound  shore  is  a  memorial 
•of  this  owner.  This  lot,  about  forty  rods  wide,  takes  in 
the  residence  of  Arthur  L.  Downs,  and  the  property 
north  and  south  from  Sound  to  bay.  It  is  an  interesting 
fact  that  the  field  across  the  highway  from  the  house  of 
Arthur  L.  Downs  is  still  known  as  the  "Coleman  lot,"  be- 
ing so  designated  in  the  deed  by  which  it  was  conveyed 
to  Daniel  Downs,  the  grandfather  of  the  present  owner, 
in  1830.  Joseph  and  Robert  W.  \\'ells  and  Atmore 
Youngs,  of  Laurel,  dwell  on  the  southern  part  of  this 
range. 

The  one  lot  of  John  Tuthill,  next  west,  early  passed 
into  the  hands  of  Joseph  Youngs,  Jr.,  the  same  who 
owned  the  first  lot  north  of  the  highway  west  of  the 
Creek.  How  the  title  passed  to  Youngs  or  from  him  is 
unknown,  but  in  169 1  this  lot  was  the  property  of 
Thomas  Moore,  and  was  by  him  sold  to  Richard  Howell, 
who  then  dwelt  where  Chauncey  P.  Howell,  a  lineal 
•descendant,  now  lives.  Richard  Howell  established  sev- 
eral of  his  five  sons  on  this  strip  and  there  his  descend- 
ants lived  for  several  generations,  purchasing  in  addition 
most  of  the  Clark  or  Coleman  lot,  and  most  of  Mapes' 
Neck  also.  On  this  Tuthill-Youngs-Howell  lot  now  re- 
side Mrs.  John  Bergen,  on  the  North  Road,  Joseph  C. 


6o 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


Cooper  and  George  Henry  Howard  on  Bergen  Avenue^ 
and  George  Clark  on  the  South  Road.  The  beautiful 
Laurel   Lake  is  partly  in  this  range,  though  singularly 


LAUREL,  LAKE. 


enough  it  is  not  mentioned  in  any  of  the  old  records  ©f 
lands  or  deeds.* 

Next   west   lies    the   second   or   double   lot   of  John 


*Since  the  above  was  written  "a  fresh  pond"  mentioned  in 
a  deed  in  Southold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  II.,  p.  446,  has  been 
identified  as  Laurel  Lake.  This  deed,  dated  January  9th,  1713, 
conveys  from  Richard  Howell  to  Archable  Tomson,  for  "ye 
sum  of  eighteen  pounds,"  a  tract  of  fifty  acres,  "bounded  on 
ye  North  by  a  fresh  pond — East  by  Walter  Brown — South  by  ye 
baye,  and  West  by  John  Swazey."  This  was  the  farm  now  of 
George  Clark,  and  the  Brown  farm  south  of  the  highway. 
About  Archibald  Thomson,  and  when  or  how  the  property 
passed  from  his  possession,  nothing  is  known  to  the  writer. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  6 1 

Swasey,  extending  to  the  lane  west  of  the  house  of  the 
late  James  Richard  Hallock.  It  is  impossible  now  to 
trace  the  descent  of  title  to  this  property.  John  Swasey 
lived  on  another  double  lot,  near  the  present  village  of 
Riverhead.  This  Mattituck  lot  is  not  mentioned  in  his 
will  which  was  drawn  in  1692.  Many  acres  of  the 
northern  part  were  later  owned  by  members  of  the  Al- 
drich  family  (who  were  descended  from  John  Swasey), 
and  about  1700  a  large  part  of  this  tract  came  into  the 
hands  of  the  Hallock  families.  The  late  James  Richard 
Hallock  lived  where  his  ancestors  had  lived  for  nearly 
two  hundred  years.  He  is  succeeded  by  his  sister,  Mrs. 
Fanny  C.  Dayton  and  her  sons,  Eleazar  J.  P.  and  La 
Rosseau.  That  part  of  the  farm  of  the  late  Thos.  A. 
Hallock  which  is  now  owned  by  Benjamin  C.  Kirkup 
is  also  a  part  of  this  tract.  In  Laurel  the  farms  of  Al- 
bert \\".  Youngs.  Fred.  Hallock.  the  late  Moses  Youngs 
and  Edward  P.  Youngs  are  on  this  property. 

The  strip  of  land  included  between  the  lines  of  the 
lane  next  to  Mrs.  Fanny  C.  Dayton's  and  the  Laurel 
Lane  (formerly  Aldrich's  Lane)  is  the  double  lot  of  John 
Tuthill,  afterwards  of  Thomas  Osman.  This  passed  from 
Thomas  Osman  to  his  sons  John  and  Jacob  and  a  num- 
ber of  sales  of  parts  of  this  property  are  entered  in  the 
Town  Records,  but,  as  usual,  all  lines  of  title  become 
■obscure  in  the  early  part  of  the  eighteenth  century,  from 
frequent  failure  to  record  wills  and  deeds.  This  lot  in- 
cludes now  the  farm  of  Charles  W.  Aldrich.  and  others 
at  the  north,  and  in  Laurel,  the  Presbyterian  Church 
property,  and  the  farms  of  James  Williamson,  George  S. 
^lahoney,  the  farm  lately  of  Mrs.  Geo.  B.  Reeve  (now  of 
Dr.  Eugene  Fuller),  and  the  farm  of  Geo.  B.  Woodhull. 


62  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

The  next  lot,  the  second  lot  of  Wm.  Hallock,  ex- 
tends from  Laurel  Lane  to  the  town  line  and  has  largely 
remained  in  the  hands  of  the  Hallock  family.  By  reason 
of  the  rapid  recession  of  the  line  of  the  bay  this  tract  is 
nearly  four  miles  long,  "from  sea  to  sea."  For  some 
inexplicable  reason  its  width  is  considerably  in  excess  of 
the  standard  eighty  rods,  so  that  the  allotment  of  Wil- 
liam Hallock  was  about  700  acres. 

William  Hallock  took  up  his  residence  upon  this 
Occabauck  land  very  soon  after  the  allotment,  and  in 
1675  he  gave  to  his  son-in-law,  Richard  Howell,  a  strip 
on  the  western  side  of  his  land,  twenty  rods  wide,  "from 
North  to  South  Sea."  This  made  a  farm  of  150  acres, 
and  the  same  year  Richard  Howell  added  to  it  twenty 
acres  purchased  from  John  Conklin  whose  land  lay  next 
west.  "The  said  twenty  acres  is  to  ly  twenty  poles  in 
breadth  and  is  to  begin  (southward)  at  the  highway 
that  leadeth  to  Sataucutt  and  to  runn  Northward  the  sd 
bredth  till  the  said  twenty  acres  be  fully  compleated." 
The  length  northward  to  complete  the  twenty  acres  was 
160  rods,  or  half  a  mile,  being  about  half  the  distance 
from  the  North  Road  to  the  Sound.  These  twenty  acres, 
with  the  adjoining  land  north  of  the  North  Road,  have 
ever  since  remained  in  possession  and  occupation  of 
Richard  Howell's  descendants,  and  now  constitute  the 
fine  farm  of  Chauncey  P.  Howell.  When  the  town  of 
Riverhead  was  set  ofif  in  1792,  the  west  line  of  the 
Howell  farm  became  the  dividing  line  between  South- 
old  and  Riverhead. 

The  north  and  south  lines  dividing  the  towns  and 
bounding  the  lots  of  the  First  Division  in  Occabauck 
are  not  due  north  and  south,  but  run  about  north-north- 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  63 

west,  and  east-southeast.  These  Hnes  are  perpendicular 
to  the  general  trend  of  the  Sound  shore.  The  lines  of 
the  smaller  farms  into  which  the  great  lots  are  divided 
follow  the  same  direction,  and  until  recently  were  all 
marked  by  hedges  and  "live  fences."  The  north  and 
south  lanes  and  roads  have  uniformly  followed  the  same 
direction,  running  along  the  farm  lines.  This  is  true 
even  of  the  streets  in  the  village  of  Riverhead.  The 
farmers  have  called  this  an  "eleven  o'clock  line,"  be- 
cause the  shadow  falls  along  it  about  an  hour  before 
noon.  This  has  been  as  good  as  a  dinner  horn  for  the 
farmer  in  all  generations.  When  his  shadow  falls  along 
the  farm  lines  he  knows  that  dinner-time  is  near. 

East  of  Mattituck  Creek  the  farm  lines  as  far  as  Mill 
Lane  are  about  in  the  same  direction,  but  towards  the 
east  they  begin  to  slant  more  towards  the  northwest,  the 
lots  growing  narrower  towards  the  Sound.  The  lanes, 
following  the  old  boundary  lines,  deviate  more  from 
the  north  the  farther  east  we  go.  until  the  Depot  Lane 
in  the  village  of  Cutchogue  runs  northwest  and  south- 
east. 

For  two  hundred  years  and  more  the  lands  were 
fenced  with  hedges  and  "live  fences."  Many  of  these 
ancient  hedges  still  exist,  but  the  intensive  agriculture 
of  recent  years  is  forcing  the  farmers  to  clear  and  level 
them.  On  either  side  of  the  line  trenches  were  dug  and 
the  earth  piled  up  along  the  line.  Some  of  the  old  hedges 
are  far  from  straight,  having  been  led  from  tree  to  tree 
in  the  general  direction  desired.  The  branches  of  these 
trees  were  "lopped"  and  bent  over.  The  notches  healed, 
and  the  lopped  branches  lived  and  grew  and  put  forth 
shoots,  and  these  branches  intermingling,  and  entwined 


64 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


with  many  wild  vines,  soon  made  a  fence  that  cattle 
could  not  break  through.  In  the  early  days  at  the  annual 
town    meeting    Fence    Viewers    were    appointed,    whose 


LOPPED  TREES  IN  AN  OLD  HEDGE. 

duty  it  was  to  see  that  these  fences  were  in  good  order, 
and  after  warning  from  them,  if  the  fence  were  not  made 
tight,  the  Owner  was  fined.    This  was  necessary  because 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  65 

the  early  inhabitants  had  large  herds  of  cattle  and  sheep 
that  were  allowed  to  run  in  the  common  and  unim- 
proved lands,  and  they  must  be  kept  from  straying  into 
the  highways  or  into  cultivated  farms.  About  the  mid- 
dle of  June,  yearly,  the  cattle  were  driven  to  Occabauck, 
and  thereafter  if  any  were  found  in  un fenced  land  be- 
tween Tom's  Creek  and  the  Canoe  Place  at  Mattituck 
their  owners  were  subjected  to  a  fine  of  ten  shillings.* 
Here  and  there,  in  the  woods,  portions  of  the  fences  that 
restrained  these  herds  more  than  two  hundred  years  ago 
may  still  be  seen.  In  almost  any  farm,  and  occasionally 
by  the  side  of  the  highway,  one  may  see  an  ancient  tree 
with  gnarled  branches  reaching  outward  in  grotesque 
shapes  as  they  were  lopped  and  bent  for  hedge  fences  in 
the  olden  time. 


*Southold  Records,  Liber  D,  p,  221. 


CHAPTER  m. 

THE  EARLIEST   SETTLERS. 

The  allotment  of  Mattituck  lands  that  was  made  in 
the  autumn  of  1661  was  probably  carried  into  effect  by 
a  survey  and  the  marking  off  of  the  lots  the  next  spring 
and  immediately  the  first  settlers  began  to  build  their 
homes  and  clear  the  land. 

The  earliest  complete  list  of  the  Mattituck  settlers 
is  found  in  the  rate  list  of  Sept.  i6th,  1675.  This  list 
names  eighty-one  heads  of  families  in  Southold  Town 
and  gives  them  in  order  from  east  to  west.  The  names 
that  appear  to  belong  to  Mattituck,  beginning  with 
Thomas  Tusten,  who  lived  near  the  foot  of  Manor  Hill, 
are  twelve.  In  these  twelve  families  were  seventeen 
adult  males  according  to  the  list,  which  gives  the  num- 
ber of  taxable  heads  in  each  household.  The  twelve 
•  householders  were  the  following :  Thomas  Tusteene, 
Thorns  Maps  Senr,  Thoms  Terrill,  James  Reeves,  Will 
Reeves,  John  Swasie  Senr,  John  Swasie  Junr,  Joseph 
Swasie,  Will  Halloke,  John  Hallok,  Richard  Howell  and 
Thoms  Osman.  Of  these  William  Hallock  was  rated  at 
361  pounds,  James  Reeve  at  244,  Thomas  Mapes  at  227, 
John  Swasey  at  200,  Thomas  Osman  at  194  and  the 
others  at  much  smaller  amounts. 

These  twelve  earliest  settlers  are  easily  located. 
Thomas  Tusten  was  near  the  foot  of  Manor  Hill,  prob- 
ably on  the  south  side  of  the  highway  then,  in  the  Fort 


A    HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  6/ 

Neck.  He  probably  settled  north  of  the  highway  in 
1684.  If  the  list  is  complete  there  was  no  dweller  be- 
tween the  foot  of  Manor  Hill  and  the  farm  now  of  Wil- 
liam Broderick  where  William  Reeve  was  settled  as  set 
forth  in  the  preceding  chapter.  William  Reeve  prob- 
ably had  his  house  near  Fisher's  ice  house,  where  Oba- 
diah  Hudson  later  dwelt.  Across  the  Lake  and  the 
highway,  on  a  part  of  Charles  W.  Wickham's  estate, 
Thomas  Mapes  was  located,  and  next  east  of  him,  James 
Reeve.  Thomas  Terrell  and  his  wife,  Mary  Reeve,  were 
probably  then  in  possession  of  the  Pike  farm  with  their 
house  near  the  old  highway.  William  Furrier  in  his  will, 
1671,  gave  to  Thomas  Terrell  "two  acres  of  land  near  or 
adjoining  to  his  now  dwelling  house."  The  dwelling 
was  perhaps  left  high  and  dry  in  the  midst  of  Reeve's 
farm  when  the  road  was  moved  in  1710.  It  appears  so, 
for  in  17 12  Terrell  sold  to  Reeve  four  acres  with  dwell- 
ing house,  bounded  north,  south,  east  and  west  by  the 
grantee. 

Thomas  Mapes'  farm,  as  well  as  Reeve's,  came  from 
William  Furrier.  Mapes  married  Furrier's  daughter 
Sarah,  and  to  her  was  left  by  her  father  twenty  pounds 
or  an  equivalent  in  land.  James  Reeve,  Furrier's  ex- 
ecutor, accordingly  conveyed  to  Thomas  Mapes  sixty 
acres  of  land  along  the  highway  next  to  the  Fessepuncke 
Neck.  The  deed,*  of  date  1683,  states  that  this  land 
was  already  "in  the  tenour  and  occupation  of  sd  Thomas 
Mapes."  Mr.  J.  Wickham  Case  is  mistaken  in  a  note 
upon  this  deed,  saying  of  this  property,  "It  was  long  the 
homestead  of  James  Worth."    He  was  led  into  error  by 


♦Southold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  I.,  p.  40#. 


68  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

an  attempt  to  locate  it  on  the  present  highway.  The 
sixty  acres  fronted  on  the  old  highway  and,  as  stated 
above,  were  a  part  of  Charles  W.  Wickham's  land,  jut- 
ting in  also  into  the  country  place  of  Frank  M.  Lupton. 
When  in  1833  the  land  of  5th  James  Reeve  was  divided 
between  his  sons  Irad  and  Edward  the  line  of  partition 
ran  through  the  midst  of  "Jabez'  field,"  which  was  doubt- 
less so  called  from  Jabez  Mapes,  who  inherited  from  his 
father  Thomas  and  sold  the  sixty  acres  back  to  the 
Reeves,  half  in  1707  and  half  in  1715.  There  are  traces 
of  an  ancient  dwelling  not  far  back  of  Charles  W.  Wick- 
ham's residence  that  was  perhaps  the  house  of  Thomas 
Mapes.  The  James  Reeve  homestead  stood  a  few  rods 
west  of  Mr.  Wickham's  and  was  taken  down  some  thirty 
years  ago. 

The  others  of  the  first  twelve  settlers  lived  in  an- 
other group  some  two  miles  to  the  west,  on  the  north 
road,  in  what  is  now  called  West  Mattituck.  Richard 
Howell  was  next  to  the  Riverhead  line,  and  near  him 
were  his  father-in-law  William  Hallock  and  his  brother- 
in-law  John  Hallock.  Near  Osman's  Lane  (later  Al- 
drich's  and  now  Laurel  Lane)  dwelt  Thomas  Osman 
and  east  of  him  the  Swaseys,  John  and  his  sons  John,  Jr.,. 
and  Joseph.  These  seven  families  made  quite  a  colony 
in  West  Mattituck  and  when  William  Hallock  gave  land 
to  his  son-in-law  Richard  Howell  in  1675  ^^^  required 
that  he  should  "not  lett  said  land  to  any  person  but  shall 
be  approved  by  ye  neighborhood." 

'  A  rate  list  eight  years  later,  1683.  gives  Mattituck 
names  as  follows:  Willm  Reeves,  Thomas  Tuston, 
Theophilus  Curwin,  Thomas  Mapps  Senr,  James  Reevs, 
Thomas    Terrill,    Fetter    Haldriag    (Aldrich),    Thomas 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  69 

Osman,  John  Osman,  William  Haliock,  Thomas  Haliock, 
John  Swazey,  Joseph  Swazey.  This  list  adds  three  names 
to  the  list  of  1675  and  subtracts  two:  Richard  Howell 
and  one  of  the  John  Swazeys.  Richard  Howell  had  moved 
to  a  farm  farther  west  and  his  name  appears  in  another 
part  of  the  rate  list.  One  of  the  John  Sweseys  is  omitted 
altogether  from  the  rate  list.  This  is  likely  an  error,  for 
both  were  living.  John  the  father  lived  until  1692  and 
it  appears  from  his  will  that  his  son  John  was  then  liv- 
ing near  him.  The  elder  Swezey's  son-in-law,  Peter 
Aldrich,  is  added  to  the  list.  He  died  ere  long,  and  in 
1692  his  heirs  received  one  hundred  acres  of  land  by 
Swezey's  will.  In  the  interval  between  the  rate  lists  of 
1675  and  1683  John  Osman,  son  of  Thomas,  had  become 
a  freeholder  beside  his  father.  The  third  addition  to  the 
inhabitants  is  ist  Theophilus  Corwin,  who  has  taken  up 
his  abode  on  the  highway  at  the  place  where  J.  J.  Kirk- 
up's  farm-house  stands. 

The  next  year  saw  Jonathan  Reeve  locate  on  the  lot 
now  of  Charles  Benjamin.  It  was  also  in  1684  that  2d 
Barnabas  Wines  bought  the  lot  next  east  of  the  Creek 
and  in  all  probability  he  took  up  his  residence  there  im- 
mediately, locating  near  the  "Ivy  Hollow"  where  the 
late  Capt.  Joshua  Terry  lived.  Another  who  just  escaped 
the  rate  list  of  1684  was  David  Gardiner,  who  settled  on 
the  Pessepuncke  Xeck  about  that  time.  In  1700  Samuel 
Clark  settled  upon  the  place  now  of  La  Mont  Gould. 
There  were  therefore  seventeen  or  eighteen  families  in 
the  year  1700  between  the  foot  of  Manor  Hill  and  the 
Riverhead  Town  line. 

Within  a  few  years  after  1700  a  number  of  changes 
and  additions  were  made.     In  1701  Thomas  Clark,  car- 


70  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

penter,  located  on  the  farm  lately  of  Mrs.  George  B. 
Reeve  in  Laurel,  and  two  years  later  his  son-in-law  Rob- 
ert Matthews  was  on  the  WoodhuU  farm  adjoining  on 
the  west.  This  was  on  the  Osman  range.  In  the  same 
range  Jonathan  Hudson,  of  Shelter  Island,  bought  land 
in  171 5.  In  1702  John  Osman,  who  styled  himself 
"planter,"  moved  from  West  Mattituck  to  a  farm  be- 
tween Elijah's  Lane  and  Manor  Hill.  Probably  about 
1707 — certainly  not  later  than  171 5 — Jabez  Mapes,  son 
of  1st  Thomas,  having  sold  the  Mapes  homestead  to 
James  Reeve  took  up  his  residence  on  Mapes'  Neck,  the 
seat  of  the  Mapes  family  for  three  generations.  2d  James 
Reeve  was  born  in  1672  and  had  established  his  own 
household  before  1698,  the  year  in  which  his  father  died. 
In  1719  the  blacksmith  Joseph  Goldsmith  was  settled  on 
the  hotel  property. 

Shortly  after  1700  Thomas  Reeve  dwelt  on  the  Phile- 
mon Dickerson  lot  near  the  present  dwelling  of  Bryant 
S.  Conklin,  and  owned  not  only  that  lot  but  most  of  the 
adjoining  Youngs-Wines  lot,  south  of  Long  Creek.  It 
is  difficult  to  determine  which  of  several  Thomas  Reeves 
of  that  day  this  was.  Very  careful  investigation,  how- 
ever, leaves  little  room  for  doubt  that  this  was  Thomas 
the  son  of  ist  James,  and  brother  of  the  James  who  in- 
herited the  Purrier  property  across  the  highway,  and 
who  in  171 5  gave  the  land  for  the  church  and  burying- 
ground.  While  2d  James  inherited  the  Purrier  property 
in  Mattituck,  Thomas,  his  brother,  inherited  the  Purrier 
home  lot  and  other  property  within  the  old  town  bounds. 
All  this  he  sold  in  1707  to  Peter  Dickerson,  the  son  of 
Philemon,  for  five  shillings.  There  must  have  been 
some  important  consideration  back  of  the  five  shillings 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  "J\ 

for  this  transfer.  Now  it  will  be  remembered  that  about 
this  time,  by  some  conveyance  of  which  there  is  no  rec- 
ord, the  Dickinson  land  in  Mattituck  passed  to  a  Thomas 
Reeve.  The  natural  conclusion  is  that  there  was  an  ex- 
change of  land  between  Thomas  Reeve,  the  son  of  James, 
and  Peter  Dickerson.  Thus  Thomas  Reeve  came  back 
to  the  place  of  his  birth,  locating  near  his  older  brother 
James,  his  cousin  William,  and  his  uncle  Jonathan. 
Like  his  brother  James  he  began  life  in  an  assured  posi- 
tion, inheriting  a  valuable  share  of  his  grandfather 
Furrier's  property.  He  married  Mary  Salmon  of  South- 
old,  became  a  lieutenant  in  the  colonial  militia,  and  after 
the  organization  of  the  Mattituck  Church  was  one  of  its 
deacons.  In  the  old  grave  yard  he  and  his  wife  Mary  lie 
next  to  his  brother  James  and  his  wife  Deborah. 

Whether  we  are  right  or  not  in  supposing  that  this- 
Thomas  was  Thomas  the  son  of  James,  there  remains, 
no  doubt  that  all  the  Reeves  of  Mattituck,  and  indeed 
of  Southold  Town,  are  of  one  and  the  same  family,  alt 
descendants  of  the  ist  Thomas  Reeve  and  Mary,  the  eld- 
est daughter  of  William  Furrier.  Thomas  is  the  only 
Reeve  in  the  earliest  lists  of  inhabitants.  After  1666 
he  is  dead  and  his  property  is  held  by  the  Widow  Reeve,, 
who  was  Mary  Furrier.  Their  children  were  Thomas,. 
James,  William,  John,  Isaac,  Jonathan,  Joseph,  Mary 
and  Hannah.  Of  these,  James,  William  and  Jonathan 
settled  in  Mattituck,  and  in  1750  Furrier  (or  Furryer) 
Reeve,  the  grandson  of  Joseph,  was  also  here.  Thomas, 
probably  the  eldest  son,  married  Agnes  Rider  and  died 
intestate  in  1682,  leaving  her  a  widow  with  three  chil- 
dren, one  of  whom  was  3d  Thomas.  As  regards  age, 
this  might  have  been  the  Thomas  who   settled  on  the 


y2  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

Dickcrson  land  in  Alattituck,  but  all  indications  are 
against  it.  This  Thomas  had  little  wealth,  and  hardly 
could  have  acquired  so  fine  a  property ;  he  was  illiterate, 
signing  deeds  with  his  mark,  and  was  hardly  the  man 
to  become  a  lieutenant  and  deacon.  At  all  events,  it  was 
either  this  Thomas  or  his  cousin,  Thomas  the  son  of 
James,  both  of  them  grandsons  of  the  original  Thomas 
Reeve  and  Mary  Furrier. 

Deacon  Thomas  Reeve  was  the  ancestor  of  most  of 
the  Reeves  in  Mattituck  today.  He  married  Mary  Sal- 
mon in  171 1.  He  was  survived  by  one  son,  Thomas 
(1726-1790)  and  four  daughters,  Ruth,  Bethiah,  Mary 
and  Hannah,  who  married  into  the  Goldsmith,  Howell, 
Wells  and  Case  families,  respectively.  Thomas  (1726- 
1790)  married  in  1745  Keziah,  the  daughter  of  Joseph 
Mapes  and  had  sons,  Thomas  (1749-1823),  Daniel, 
James  (1751-1807),  Barnabas  and  John,  and  daughters, 
Keziah,  Hannah,  Sarah  and  Experience.  Of  these  sons, 
Thomas  married  in  1770  Parnel,  daughter  of  ist  Rich- 
ard Steers  Hubbard,  and  James  married  in  1779. Parnel 
Howell.  Thomas  and  Parnel  (Hubbard)  were  the  par- 
ents of  Benjamin  (the  grandfather  of  Thomas  H.), 
Luther  (the  grandfather  of  William  H.  and  James  L.), 
and  Thomas  (the  grandfather  of  Thomas  Edward). 
James  and  Parnel  (Howell)  were  the  parents  of  Jesse 
(the  grandfather  of  John  G.,  Henry  J.  and  Herbert  M.), 
and  Edmund  (the  father  of  James  Franklin). 

In  the  Census  of  Southold  Town  taken  in  1698  there 
were  eight  hundred  persons  in  one  hundred  and  thirty- 
two  families.  At  least  nineteen  of  these  families,  with 
about  one  hundred  and  twenty  persons,  dwelt  in  or  near 
Mattituck  then  or  soon  after.    The  list  is  not  in  order  of 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  73 

location,  like  the  rate  lists  of  1675  and  1683,  and  while 
the  names  of  all  inhabitants,  old  and  young,  are  given, 
the  heads  of  families  are  not  indicated.  It  is  often  im- 
possible to  tell  where  one  family  ends  and  another  be- 
gins. As  far  as  possible,  with  probability  of  some  errors 
both  of  addition  and  omission,  an  attempt  is  here  made 
to  indicate  the  Mattituck  families,  including  both  those 
that  were  in  the  village  then  and  those  that  located  in 
Mattituck  within  a  few  years.  With  this  disclaimer  of 
inerrancy  the  author  ventures  to  give  the  Mattituck  fam- 
ilies about  the  opening  of  the  eighteenth  century : 

Thomas  Terrell,*  and  the  sons  and  daughters  then 
living  with  him,  John,  Richard,  Abigail,  Nicholas,  and 
Catharine ; 

Peter  and  Eliza  Hallock.f  and  Bethiah,  Abigail, 
Peter,  Jr.,  William,  and  Noah ; 

Jonathan  and  Martha  Reeve,  and  Margaret,  Mary, 
^lartha  and  Matthew ; 

Thomas  and  Hope  Hallock.l  and  Thomas,  Kingsland, 
Ichabod,  Zerubbabel,  Anna,  Patience  and  Richard ; 


*This  is  probably  1st  Thos.  Terrill.  He  first  married,  in  1665, 
Mary,  daughter  of  Thos.  and  Mary  (Furrier)  Reeve.  It  appears 
from  the  will  of  1st  Thos.  Mapes  (1686)  that  he  married  later 
Abigail  Mapes.  Through  Abigail  (Mapes)  Terrill  a  large  part 
of  the  Mapes  property  descended  to  John  Hubbard,  the  grand- 
son of  Barnabas  Terrill,  who  was  the  grandson  or  great-grand- 
son of  1st   Thomas. 

tPeter  Hallock  was  second  son  of  1st  William.  The  father 
of  1st  William  was  likely  enough  Peter,  as  is  commonly  stated, 
but  there  is  no  valid  reason  for  believing  that  he  ever  dwelt 
in  Southold  Town,  for  his  name  does  not  appear  in  the  early 
records.  William  was  undoubtedly  the  first  Hallock  in  Southold. 

IThomas  Hallock  was  eldest  son  of  1st  "^'illiam.  He  is  the 
ancestor  of  most  of  the  Hallocks  of  Mattituck,  Laurel,  and 
vicinity. 


74  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

Joseph  and  Mary  Sweazy,  and  their  children  Jo- 
hanna, Joseph,  Jr.,  Mary,  Sarah,  Samuel,  Richard,. 
Stephen  and  Bathia.     [Joseph  was  a  son  of  John,  Sr.] 

John  and  Mary  Swazy,  and  their  children  John,  Jr., 
Susana,  Mary,  Jr.,  Joshua  and  Phebe.  [This  was  2d 
John.] 

Jacob  and  Sarah  Ozmond,*  and  Mary,  Sarah,  Jr., 
Eliza,  Hester,  Pinnina,  Hannah. 


*This  was  Jacob  Osman.  Other  Osman  families  are  given- 
in  the  census  that  probably  belonged  in  Mattituck,  but  cer- 
tainty regarding  them  is  unattainable.  Thus  early  the  Osman 
name  suffered  in  its  orthography.  In  the  latter  part  of  the 
eighteenth  century  the  Osman  and  Osborn  names  became  sin- 
gularly confused.  This  confusion  misled  for  a  time  even  such 
a  careful  writer  as  the  late  J.  Wickham  Case.  In  a  note  in 
Southold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  I.,  p.  98,  on  1st  Thomas  Osman, 
Mr.  Case  identifies  the  families,  saying,  "They  changed  their 
family  name  Osman  to  Osborn  in  1778  (See  D,  136)."  This  he 
corrected  in  a  later  note.  Vol.  II.,  p.  536,  where  he  explains, 
"These  two  names  became  confounded  on  the  Town  Records- 
in  1778,  the  name  being  written  Osman  by  the  Town  Clerk 
when  he  should  have  written  it  Osborn."  This  mistake  led  Mr. 
Case  to  suppose  that  Thos.  Osman,  when  he  sold  his  home  at 
Hashamomack.  in  1684,  rejnoved  to  the  lot  in  Cutchogue  next 
east  of  Alvah's  lane,  where  the  Osborns  later  appeared.  Wines 
Osborn  (son  of  Daniel  Osborn,  of  the  East  Hampton  family) 
inherited  that  lot  from  his  grandfather,  3d  Barnabas  Wines. 
Thomas  Osman  settled,  as  stated  above,  on  the  lot  that  had 
been  John  Tuthill's,  between  Wm..  Hallock  and  John  Swazy. 
(Printed  Records,  Vol.  I.,  p.  99.)  Aldrich's  Lane,  now  Laurel 
Lane,  was  Osman's  Lane  until  nearly  1800.  The  confusion  of 
the  names  Osman  and  Osborn  must  have  been  general,  extend- 
ing to  stone  cutters  as  well  as  town  clerks,  for  five  children, 
almost  certainly  of  Jonathan  and  Elizabeth  (Hallock)  Osman, 
who  died  in  August,  1756,  have  head-stones  in  the  burying- 
ground  marked  as  children  of  "Mr.  Jonathan  and  Mrs.  Eliza- 
beth Osborn."  The  confusion  was  not  so  impossible  to  the 
ear  as  it  appears  to  the  eye.  One  was  pronounced  "Osm'n,"  and 
the  other  "Osb'n."  Jonathan  Osman  wrote  his  name  correctly. 
Why  he  let  the  tomb-stones  remain  uncorrected  is  a  question 
for    guessing.      Perhaps    the    tide    of    mistake    was    so    strong^ 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  Jy 

Thomas  and  Mary  Clark,  and  Thomas,  Jr.,  and  Eliza- 
beth. [Settled  in  Laurel  in  1701.  Elizabeth  married 
Robert  Matthews.] 

Richard  Howell,*  and  David,  Jonathan,  Richard^ 
Isaac,  Jacob,  Eliza,  and  Dorothy; 

Theophilus  Corwin;f 

John,  Jr.,  and  Sarah  Corwin,  and  Sarah,  Eliza  and 
Hester;  ["Captain"  in  Corwin  Genealogy.  Son  of  ist 
John,  grandfather  of  Deacon  John.] 

David  and  Martha  Gardiner,  and  Mary ; 

Mary  Reeve  [widow  of  William],  and  William,  Abi- 
gail, Margaret,  Sarah,  Thomas. 

James  ReeveJ  and  Deborah,  Mary,  Isaac,  Thomas,. 
Mary. 


against  him  that  he  gave  up  in  despair,  as  some  persons  to-day 
surrender  in  the  unequal  struggle  against  common  mispro- 
nunciation of  their  names.  Jonathan  died  intestate  in  1761.  He 
and  his  wife  Elizabeth  probably  lie  in  unmarked  graves. 

*Richard  Howell  was  the  son-in-law  of  1st  William  Hallock. 
His  wife,  Elizabeth  Hallock,  was  dead.  From  Richard  and 
Elizabeth  (Hallock)  Howell  descend  the  Howells  of  Mattituck 
and  vicinity. 

jTheophilus  Corwin  was  2d  Theophilus,  son  of  1st  Theophilus, 
son  of  Matthias.  He  was  then  about  twenty-one  years  of  age, 
and  shortly  after,  probably,  married  Hannah  Ramsay.  Dying 
in  1762,  he  left  a  daughter,  Hannah,  the  wife  of  Thomas  Har- 
vey, and  sons,  Timothy  and  Jonathan.  His  son  Samuel  died  a 
month  before  the  father,  leaving  sons,  Benjamin,  David  and 
Samuel.  David,  with  his  uncle  Timothy,  inherited  the  southern 
part  of  the  J.  J.  Kickup  farm.  Jonathan  inherited  a  farm  near 
Riverhead,  and  died  in  1798,  leaving  sons,  Selah  and  Asa.  Tim- 
othy died  in  Franklinville,  now  Laurel,  in  1792,  leaving  sons,. 
Thomas,  Timothy  and  Amaziah.  Amaziah  lived  where  the  can- 
ning factory  stands.  Daniel,  the  brother  of  this  Theophilus, 
was  ancestor  of  Mrs.  James  T.  Hamlin,  and  of  Mrs.  John  M. 
Lupton. 

$James  Reeve  is  2d  James.  His  father  died  the  year  of  the 
census.     He  had  a  sister  Deborah,  and  his  wife  was  Deborah 


yd  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

Thomas  Tiisten  [2d]  and  Priscilla  [Benjamin,  the 
widow  of  1st  Thos.],  and  Eliza,  Miriam  and  Grace. 

Thomas,  Jr.,  and  .Sarah  Terrell,*  and  Thomas  and 
Sarah. 

Barnabas  and  Mary  Wines,  and  Barnabas,  Jr.,  Sam- 
uel, Bathia,  Peanellope.     [This  was  2d  Barnabas.] 

William  and  Mary  Hallocke,  and  William,  Jr.,  Pru- 
dence, Zebulon,  Mary,  Jr.,  and  Ruth  Howell. 

Jabez  and  Eliza  Mapes,  and  Sarah,  Eliza,  Jr.,  Han- 
nah and  Ealse. 

The  hundred  or  more  residents  of  Mattituck  about 
the  year  1700  lived  the  same  simple  life  as  all  their 
neighbors  on  the  eastern  end  of  Long  Island.  They 
were  mostly  large  landholders,  but  had  little  money  and 
little  use  for  it  except  to  acquire  more  land.  Each  well- 
to-do  man  owned  a  suit  of  clothes,  and  perhaps  a  "troop- 
er's coat"  made  of  imported  cloth.  These  fine  suits,  with 
such  accessories  as  silver  shoe  buckles,  lasted  for  years 
and  were  handed  down  by  will  from  father  to  son.  The 
rest  of  their  clothing  was  homespun.  Their  communi- 
cation with  the  outside  world,  by  small  sloops  sailing  to 
New  Haven  and  New  York,  was  slow,  and  in  winter 
dangerous,  and  they  were  substantially  independent,  suf- 
ficient unto  themselves,  having  large  flocks  and  herds, 
raising  their  own  corn,  wheat,  rye  and  other  simple  food- 


(probably  Satterly).  The  Deborah  of  the  census  is  probably  his 
wife.  Mary,  Isaac  and  Thomas  are  his  sister  and  brothers.  The 
second  Mary  is  probably  his  daughter.  His  son  James  was 
born  in  1709. 

*2d  Thomas  Terrell.  Either  Sarah  named  here  died  early  and 
he  married  as  second  wife  Bethiah  Wines,  named  in  next  fam- 
i'y,  or  3d  Thomas  married  Bethiah.  Thomas  (either  2d  or  3d) 
and  Bethiah  were  parents  of  Barnabas,  born  1710. 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  JJ 

Stuffs,  growing  their  flax,  spinning  and  weaving  their 
own  fabrics,  importing  not  much  besides  the  Enghsh 
cloth  already  mentioned,  sugar,  molasses  and  rum,  a  very 
few  books,  chiefly  Bibles,  iron  and  brass  kettles  and  a 
meagre  supply  of  such  other  utensils  as  could  not  be 
made  by  the  smiths  at  home,  and  occasionally  silver 
tankards  and  spoons*  that  figure  in  their  wills. 

Among  bequests  of  silver  may  be  mentioned  here, 
because  of  the  interest  that  attaches  to  the  persons, 
though  the  will  was  of  a  much  later  date  than  the  time 
we  are  considering,  a  gift  by  will  from  Henry  Tuthill, 
in  1793,  to  his  granddaughter,  Phebe  Goldsmith.  Henry 
and  Phebe  (Horton)  Tuthill  were  the  parents  of  Anna 
who  married  Capt.  John  Cleves  Symmes  in  1760,  and 
the  grandparents  of  Anna  Symmes  who  became  the  wife 
of  the  first  President  Harrison  and  the  grandmother  of 
the  late  President  Benjamin  Harrison.  In  his  will  Henry 
Tuthill  leaves  to  his  great-granddaughter  Phebe  Gold- 
smith six  silver  spoons,  mentioning  that  "they  caust 
Eighteen  Shilings  a  peas."  These  were  to  go  to  Phebe 
if  she  lived  to  be  eighteen  years  of  age.  She  was  then 
about  five  years  old,  and  died  in  1857,  the  widow 
of  James  Wickham  Reeve.  The  spoons  are  now  in 
possession  of  Miss  Mary  A.  Gildersleeve,  her  grand- 
daughter. 

To  return  to  the  primitive  days  of  1700.  Money  w^as 
scarce,  and  pay  was  often  "in  kind."  Even  taxes  were 
thus    paid    frequently.      Consequently    at    town    meeting 

*The  inventories  of  early  date  often  mention  "occomee"  or 
"okimy"  spoons,  employing  these  strangelj'^  corrupted  spellings 
of  alciiemy,  a  name  formerly  given  to  a  mixed  metal  of  which 
many  utensils  were  made,  including  trumpets.  Hence  Milton's. 
"Put  to  their  mouths  the  sounding  alchemy." 


78  A    HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

the  rate  at  which  food-stuffs  were  to  be  received  was 
decided.  Wheat  was  usually  about  4  shillings  six  pence 
per  bushel ;  corn,  three  shillings ;  wool  was  twelve  pence 
per  pound,  and  flax  eight  pence.  In  1686  it  was  ordered 
that  the  surveyors  laying  out  meadow  lots  should  re- 
ceive "four  pence  per  Lott  in  money  or  eight  pence  in 
pay,"  "In  pay"  meant  in  wheat  or  wool  or  other  pro- 
duce, and  it  is  evident  from  this  order  that  those  who 
had  real  money  to  offer  received  a  very  substantial  dis- 
count for  cash.  To  make  sure  of  payment  it  was  fur- 
ther ordered  that  the  surveyors  "shall  make  use  of  every 
Lott  till  Due  payment  is  made." 

'  A  line  upon  comparative  values  then  and  now  can 
be  fixed  by  an  examination  of  inventories  of  those  days 
and  of  Town  accounts.  A  man  of  consequence  for  a 
day's  service  for  the  town  received  two  shillings.  A 
man  with  a  team  working  on  the  highway  received  three 
shillings,  and  a  laborer  without  a  team  received  one 
shilling  six  pence.*  A  shilling  was  therefore  approxi- 
mately equal  to  a  dollar  today,  measured  in  terms  of 
manual  labor.  Wheat  then  at  four  shillings  six  pence 
was  as  costly  as  it  would  be  today  at  four  and  a  half  dol- 
lars a  bushel.  In  1665!  calves  were  three  pounds  per 
head,  wheat  five  shillings  per  bushel,  Indian  corn  four 
shillings,  barley  five  shillings,  and  peas  four  shillings. 
In  i673;j:  pork  was  three  pounds  ten  shillings  per  barrel 
and  beef  was  two  pounds  five.  Land  was  low :  in  the 
same  year  ten  acres  of  land§  sold  for  "a  barrill  of  good 


*Southold  Records,  Liber  D,  p.  10. 
tSouthold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  II.,  p.  118. 
Jlbid.,  Vol.  I.,  p.  311. 
.iirind..  Vol.  T..  p.  65. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  79 

porke."  Somewhat  earlier*  shoes  were  worth  six  pence, 
half-penny  a  pair. 

In  the  inventory  of  the  estate  of  Thomas  Mapes, 
1687,  "One  fether  bed,  bouldster,  2  pillows,  2  prs.  of 
sheets,  5  blankets,  i  coverlid,  i  pr.  of  curtaines  and  bed 
sted,  I  cheste  bed  and  boulster"  were  valued  at  ten 
pounds.  That  is,  these  articles  represented  two  hundred 
days'  work  of  a  laboring  man.  "Two  brass  kettles,  i 
Iron  kettle,  2  Iron  potts,  i  sckollet  [skillet],  one  warm- 
ing pan,  hoke  [chimney  hook]  and  other  Iron"  repre- 
sented five  pounds.  His  "wareing  cloaths"  were  worth 
five  pounds,  and  his  two  swords  and  one  gun,  one  pound, 
five  shillings.  His  "7  Platters,  3  basons,  6  porigers,  i 
quart  pott  and  6  spoons"  were  appraised  at  one  pound, 
fifteen  shillings,  and  three  books  at  seven  shillings.  His 
personal  estate  amounted  to  eighty-four  pounds,  which 
was  uncommonly  large  for  his  day.  The  cost  of  a  coffin 
in  1675  appears  from  an  entry  on  the  back  of  the  inven- 
tory of  the  estate  of  Joseph  Youngs,  Jr. :  "Due  from 
Joseph  Youngs  to  Samuel  Winds  for  his  coffin,  5  shil- 
lings." Samuel  Wines  was  a  carpenter,  and  Youngs' 
brother-in-law. 

William  Hallock  (whose  name  was  written  Halliok) 
left  a  very  large  personal  estate  in  1684,  including  "beds 
and  bedding,  30  pounds ;  pewter  brass  and  Iron,  40 
pounds ;  wooden  and  leather  ware,  9  pounds ;  sheets  and 
table  linen,  6  pounds;  wareing  cloaths,  11  pounds,  10 
shillings;  horses  cattle  and  swine  80  pounds,  7  shillings; 
all  Implements  of  husbandry,   12  pounds." 

From  the  wills  and  inventories  and  other  records  of 


'=Southold   Printed   Record.s,   Vol.   I.,   p.   207. 


8o  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

the  time  it  appears  that  land,  especially  woodland,  was 
cheap,  that  labor  was  cheap,  and  that  products  of  the 
land,  because  of  the  small  acreage  under  cultivation,, 
were  dear.  Cattle,  held  in  large  numbers  and  finding 
their  forage  in  the  uncultivated  lands,  were  compara- 
tively cheap,  though  very  valuable  as  compared  with  the 
land  on  which  they  roamed.  Articles  that  had  to  be  im- 
ported, such  as  brass  kettles,  silverware,  books  and  fine 
cloth,  were  tremendously  expensive  and  were  regarded 
as  rare  treasures.  The  balance  of  trade  in  those  days 
was  largely  against  the  colonists,  and  there  was  very  lit- 
tle English  money  among  them.  Later,  the  colonial  cur- 
rency came  into  vogue,  but  its  value  was  always  sadly 
depreciated.  For  a  long  time  the  wampum  of  the  In- 
dians was  much  used  as  money,  but  exchanges  were 
most  commonly  effected  by  barter. 

The  farmers  had  enough  to  eat  and  wear,  but  some- 
times found  it  hard  to  meet  their  taxes.  Then  as  ever 
some  prospered  and  added  continually  to  their  lands, 
while  others  lost  their  holdings  little  by  little.  It  was. 
probably  almost  impossible  for  a  man  without  a  farm 
and  without  a  trade  to  make  a  living  for  a  family.  The 
men  with  trades  were  as  a  rule  prosperous.  There  were 
blacksmiths,  masons,  carpenters,  joiners,  coopers,  wheel- 
wrights, weavers,  cordwainers  (shoemakers),  saddlers^ 
fullers,  tailors,  tanners,  millers.  These  men  usually  car- 
ried on  their  trades  as  an  adjunct  to  farming,  and  they 
often  grew  rich,  acquiring  much  land.  The  blacksmith 
made  all  the  nails  that  were  used,  as  well  as  axes,  ham- 
mers, ploughs,  spades  and  other  farming  implements, 
chains,  andirons,  pot  hooks,  and  pretty  much  anything 
that  could  be  made  of  iron.     The  pails  and  tubs  used 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  OI 

about  the  house  and  dairy,  as  well  as  the  barrels,  were 
made  by  the  cooper. 

Another  important  art  was  that  of  navigation.  Prob- 
ably before  1700  Capt.  Barnabas  Wines  sailed  his  sloop 
between  the  mouth  of  the  Creek  and  New  York.  He 
was  succeeded  in  this  enterprise  by  his  son,  and  one  or 
two  sloops  were  regularly  employed  upon  that  route 
until  some  fifty  years  ago  when  the  railroad,  being  much 
more  accessible  as  well  as  quicker,  drove  them  out  of 
business.  Capt.  Gilbert  Davis,  the  father  of  IMrs.  Joshua 
Terry,  was  the  last  to  run  a  sloop  regularly  between 
Mattituck  and  New  York.  Not  a  few  of  the  early  settlers 
were  engaged  in  the  coasting  trade,  and  some  made 
voyages  to  the  West  Indies. 

So  well  did  the  fathers  understand  the  value  of  a 
trade,  that  it  was  customary  for  the  sons  of  the  wealthiest 
families  to  be  apprenticed  in  their  youth  to  neighboring 
smiths  or  other  artisans.  A  father  dying  and  leaving 
boys  usually  charged  his  executors  in  his  will  to  see  that 
his  sons  were  apprenticed  to  learn  useful  trades. 

The  houses  of  the  early  days  were  strongly  joined 
with  hewn  oak  timbers,  and  covered  with  large  oak 
shingles  which  were  good  for  many  years.  The  foun- 
dations were  built  of  large  stones,  mostly  round,  gath- 
ered at  the  shore  of  the  Sound.  The  only  heat  was  from 
mammoth  open  fireplaces  beneath  huge  chimneys.  The 
chimneys  were  built  of  brick  which  from  the  earliest 
settlement  were  manufactured  at  Arshamomack.  These 
great  fireplaces  served  for  cooking  purposes  as  well  as 
heating,  being  fitted  with  cranes  and  hooks  for  pots  and 
kettles.  Baking  was  done  in  tremendous  brick  ovens-,, 
with  iron  doors.    In  these  hot  fires  of  wood  were  kindlecB 


82 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


and  allowed  to  burn  until  the  walls  were  thoroughly 
heated.  The  coals  were  then  drawn  out,  and  the  oven 
was  ready  for  baking.  Such  a  thing  as  a  stove  for  heat- 
ing w^as  unknown  for  nearly  a  hundred  years  after  Mat- 
tituck  was  settled. 

In  the  villasfe  of  Mattituck  there  are  few  verv  old 


THE  ELYMAS  REEVE  HOUSE. 

This  house  faces  the  south,  with  its  baclc  to  the  road, 
built  soon  after  1710. 


Probably 


houses  standing.  There  are  several  very  old  barns,  with 
oak  shingles,  weatherbeaten  but  sound,  and  the  oak 
frames  of  some  of  the  ancient  houses  are  still  doing 
service  in  barns  and  outhouses.  The  house  on  the  north 
side  of  the  highway  now  owned  by  Wm.  Broderick,  in 
which  the  Kelly  sisters  reside,  w^as  built  about  1790  by 
Joseph    Parker   Wickham.     The  house  across   the   way 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


83 


from  Jacob  A.  Brown's  dwelling  is  considerably  older, 
and  no  one  knows  by  whom  it  was  first  occupied.  It 
was  built  in  the  days  when  houses  were  placed  with  re- 
gard to  the  points  of  the  compass,  facing  due  south  for 
the  most  agreeable  exposure.  With  a  fine  indifference 
to  appearances  it  presents  its  back  door  to  the  highway. 
If  anv  house  in   Mattituck  is  older  than  this,  it  is  the 


THE   ANCIENT  TAVERN. 
The  old  part  of  the  Mattituck  House. 

older  part  of  the  hotel,  or  Mattituck  house,  which  was 
John  Hubbard's  tavern  before  the  Revolutionary  war. 
The  hotel  was  owned  by  Barnabas  Terrel  until  his  death 
in  1791,  when  he  left  it  to  his  grandson,  2d  John  Hub- 
bard :  "that  house  and  land  which  he  now  lives  in  and 
all  the  privaliges  thereunto  belonging."  Hubbard  had 
then  been  keeping  the  tavern  for  fifteen  or  sixteen  years. 


84 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


succeeding  his  father,  who  died  in  1775.  The  first  John 
Hubbard  had  married  Mary  Terrell  (who  after  his 
death  became  the  wife  of  Col.  Phineas  Fanning)  in  1762. 
From  that  time  until  his  death  he  appears  to  have  kept 
the  tavern  owned  by  his  wife's  father.  Whether  the 
Terrells  kept  this  as  a  public  house  before  Hubbard  is 
a  question  to  which  no  answer  can  be  given.     And  there 


THE  HOME  OF  JOEL  C.  HOWELL. 
Built  by  5th  William  Wells  before  the  Revolutionai-y  War. 

is  no  record  of  when  or  how  the  property  passed  into 
Terrell  hands.  It  was  bought  in  1719  by  Joseph  Gold- 
smith, blacksmith,  who  died  in  1736.  It  is  possible  that 
the  older  part  of  the  Mattituck  house  was  built  by  this 
Joseph  Goldsmith  for  his  dwelling  in  1719.  If  so,  it  is 
one  of  the  oldest  buildings  standing  in  Southold  Town. 
The   house    of   Frank   C.    Barker,   on    Pike    Street,   was 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  85 

built,  probably,  before  1800.  Before  its  removal  to  its 
present  position  it  stood  on  the  Glenwood  House  lot,  and 
was  occupied  by  Barnabas  Pike,  from  whom  Pike  Street 
is  named.  Barnabas  Pike  purchased  from  the  Reeves, 
and  after  a  few  years  sold  to  Mrs.  John  Odell.  But 
long  before  this  had  been  the  residence  of  Amasa  Pike, 
cousin  of  Barnabas'  father.  Amasa  probably  built  the 
house  sometime  after  the  Revolutionary  war.  Another 
house  dating  from  the  time  preceding  the  Revolutionary 
war  is  that  of  Joel  Howell,  which  was  erected  by  5th 
William  Wells,  grandfather  of  Joseph  Wells,  of  Laurel, 
before  his  voluntary  exile  in  Connecticut  during  the 
British  occupation  of  Long  Island. 


CHAPTER  IV. 

THE    FOUNDING    OF    THE    CHURCH. 

Up  to  171 5  all  the  people  of  Southold  Town  went  to 
the  old  Town  Church,  and  even  after  that  date  all  were 
taxed  for  its  support.  On  June  15th,  171 5,  ''Sundry  per- 
sons," inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Southold,  "indented 
with  each  other  to  build  a  Meeting  House  at  a  place 
called  Mattetucke  in  the  said  Town  Ship,"  So  says  tht 
ancient  deed  whereby  2d  James  Reeve,  five  months  later, 
conveyed  "unto  ye  said  Inhabitants  and  to  their  Heirs 
and  Successors  for  ever"  the  half  acre  of  land  on  which 
the  Presbyterian  Church  now  stands.  This  deed,  dated 
Nov.  7th,  171 5,  gives  "half  an  acre  of  land  lying  and 
being  at  Mattetuck  in  ye  sd  Town  between  the  two  high 
ways,  and  to  lye  as  near  Square  as  may  be  where  ye  sd 
ways  part  .  .  .  for  to  set  the  said  meeting  House 
upon ;  and  for  noe  other  use  whatsoever,  but  for  the  sd 
meeting  House  to  stand  upon."  Shortly  after  another 
deed  was  signed  and  sealed  by  the  same  donor  convey- 
ing an  acre  and  a  half  adjoining  for  the  Burying  Ground. 
2(1  James  Reeve,  like  his  father,  was  a  man  prominent 
in  the  town,  frequently  serving  the  town  in  official  posi- 
tion, and  for  years  being  one  of  the  Town  Justices.  He 
died  in  1732,  and  in  the  ground  which  he  consecrated  to 
the  use  of  the  parish  his  grave  is  marked  with  a  stone 
on  which  is  this  inscription :    "Here  lyes  buried  ye  Body 


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Koi;  .\ii;i.:ti.\(;  house. 


88  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

of  ye  Hono'ble  James  Reeve  Esqr  who  Departed  this 
life  March  14th  Anno  Domi  1732  in  ye  60th  Year  of  His 
Age."  Beside  him  Hes  his  wife,  Deborah  (probably  De- 
borah Satterly  of  the  Brookhaven  family),  who  survived 
him  twenty  years,  living  with  her  son,  3d  James,  in  the 
old  homestead.  In  all  the  life  of  the  parish  their  descend- 
ants have  held  prominent  part  up  to  this  day. 

The  Meeting  House  was  probably  erected  immedi- 
ately upon  this  most  advantageous  site  at  the  junction 
of  the  highways.  The  Rev.  N.  S.  Prime,  in  his  History 
of  Long  Island,  states  that  it  was  erected  by  Nathaniel 
Warner,  master  builder.  Nathaniel  Warner  lived  near 
the  present  village  of  Jamesport,  where  his  descendants 
still  reside.  He  was  a  son-in-law  of  James  Reeve,  the 
donor  of  the  land,  marrying  Reeve's  daughter,  Deborah. 
The  original  building  stood  for  one  hundred  and  fifteen 
years,  until  1830,  when  the  second  edifice  was  erected. 
The  old  house,  with  its  strong  oak  frame,  was  drawn 
by  oxen  to  Greenport,  where  it  stood  until  recent  years 
on  the  main  street  near  the  dock,  serving  as  a  sail  loft. 
It  was  finally  destroyed  by  fire. 

The  old  building  stood  where  the  present  church 
stands,  but  faced  the  other  way,  its  front  door  being  at 
the  south  end,  the  high  pulpit  with  sounding  board  above 
it  being  in  the  north  end.  There  were  also  doors  on  the 
east  and  west  sides,  somewhat  north  of  the  middle.  It 
was  a  plain  shingled  building,  with  a  gallery  along  the 
sides  and  across  the  south  end.  Under  the  gallery  the 
walls  were  plastered,  but  overhead  were  the  oak  beams 
and  shingles.  In  those  days  there  was  no  lack  of  ven- 
tilation in  the  churches.  The  swallows  passed  in  and  out 
beneath  the  eaves,  and  as  in  the  ancient  Psalmist's  time 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  8c> 

found  nests  for  themselves  where  they  might  lay  their 
young,  even  in  the  Lord's  altars.  In  the  south  end  the 
pews  ran  east  and  west  with  a  middle  aisle,  or  "broad 
alley,"  as  it  was  often  called,  between  them.  In  the 
north  end,  on  either  side  of  the  pulpit,  the  pews  ran  north 
and  south.  Near  the  side  doors,  between  the  lateral  and 
longitudinal  pews,  were  private  chairs,  owned  and  occu- 
pied by  the  matrons  who  brought  their  little  children  to 
church.  The  seats  immediately  in  front  of  the  pulpit 
Avere  reserved  for  the  small  boys  of  the  congregation, 
that  they  might  be  directly  under  the  awful  eye  of  the 
minister,  while  close  to  the  pulpit  on  either  side  sat  the 
■deacons.  It  is  said  that  the  young  men  and  maidens  used 
to  frequent  the  gallery. 

The  old  church  to  the  time  of  its  removal  in  1830  was 
never  warmed  in  winter.  The  older  women  had  their 
little  foot-stoves  carried  to  the  meeting  house.  The 
men  and  the  young  people,  not  grown  tender  from  the 
hot-house  culture  of  modern  times,  thought  nothing  of 
sitting  in  the  unheated  church  on  a  winter's  Sabbath 
from  ten  to  twelve  in  the  morning  and  again  through 
an  afternoon  service  after  an  hour's  intermission.  The 
temperature  was  low,  and  the  uncushioned  seats  were 
hard,  but  they  forgot  the  absence  of  creature  comforts 
in  their  close  attention  to  doctrinal  sermons  an  hour  long, 
or  more.  The  difference  between  those  "good  old  days" 
and  these  lay  not  so  much  in  the  superior  eloquence  of 
the  preachers  or  the  deeper  spirituality  of  the  hearers  as 
in  the  circumstances  of  the  times.  If  the  railroad  tracks 
were  torn  up  and  the  telegraph  wires  cut  down,  the 
newspapers  and  magazines  discontinued  and  ninety-nine 
hundredths  of  the  books  were  lost,  if  the  thousand  and 


90  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

one  cares  and  distractions  and  diversions  incident  to  the 
highly  artificial  civilization  of  the  present  day  were  re- 
moved, nearly  every  one  would  go  to  church,  though  he 
had  to  walk  far,  and  would  listen  with  avidity  to  a  very 
ordinary  preacher  as  long  as  he  would  talk;  especially, 
if  now  as  then,  the  preacher  were  the  only  educated  man 
in  the  community. 

The  first  Pastor  in  Alattituck  was  the  Rev.  Joseph 
Lamb,  who  was  one  of  the  five  graduates  of  the  year 
1717  in  Yale  College.  All  of  the  five  became  ministers, 
as  did  all  of  the  six  in  the  two  years  preceding.  One 
of  the  three  in  the  class  of  171 5  was  Nathaniel  Mather,* 
who  afterwards  became  pastor  of  the  Aquebogue  Churchi 
(now  Jamesport).  The  PresbyteVy  of  Long  Island,  em- 
bracing the  whole  of  the  Island,  and  New  York  City  as 
well,  had  just  been  organized,  and  one  of  its  first  official 
acts  was  the  ordination  and  installation  of  Joseph  Lamb 
in  Mattituck,  Dec.  6th,  1717.  The  Mattituck  Church  was 
thus  early  in  its  life  allied  with  the  Presbytery.  The  only 
others  on  the  Island  connected  with  the  Presbytery  at 
that  time  were  the  churches  of  Jamaica,  Newtown, 
Setauket  and  Southampton. 

Not  one  line  of  record  survives  to  tell  us  of  the  pas- 
torate of  Mr.  Lamb.  Even  the  records  of  the  original 
Presbytery  of  Long  Island  are  lost.    Mr.  Lamb  remained 


*Nathaniel  Mather  heads  the  list  of  his  class  in  social  rank 
and  was  presumably  a  son  of  the  distinguished  New  England 
family  of  that  name,  though  it  seems  difficult  to  place  him  in 
the  genealogical  tables  of  that  family.  He  died  at  Aquebogue. 
His  will  was  proved  in  New  York  in  1748.  He  left  sons,  In- 
crease, who  married  a  Brown,  and  Ebenezer,  who  married  Mar- 
garet Downs.  The  will  does  not  mention  wife  or  daughter. 
According  to  the  Salmon  Record  he  married  the  widow  Ruth 
Terry,  in  1724. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  9I 

here  twenty-five  years  or  more.  In  1744  he  became  tht*^ 
pastor  of  the  church  at  Basking-Ridge,  N.  J.,  dying  Juno 
28th,  1749,  in  his  60th  year.  He  is  said  to  have  been  of 
Scotch  descent  and  a  worthy  man.  In  Basking-Ridge 
the  church  prospered  under  his  ministry,  and  the  people 
outgrowing  their  original  log  meeting  house  erected  a 
new  frame  building  that  served  their  purposes  for  ninety 
years.  Tradition  has  it  that  the  frame  of  the  new  build- 
ing was  raised  the  very  day  that  the  faithful  pastor  was 
called  higher  to  the  house  not  made  with  hands.  His 
grave  is  near  the  entrance  to  the  Basking-Ridge  Church, 
under  a  magnificent  ancient  oak. 

Pathetically  enough,  the  grave  of  the  wife  of  his 
youth,  who  died  twenty  years  before,  stands  lonely  in 
the  Mattituck  grave  yard.  "Here  lyes  Buried  ye  Body 
of  Mrs.  Patience  Lamb,  wife  of  the  Rev'd  iMr.  Joseph 
Lamb;  who  Dec'd  April  4th  Anno  Domi.  1729,  Aged  35 
years."  It  is  probable  that  this  Patience  was  the  young- 
est daughter  of  Capt.  Jonathan  Horton.  When  Capt. 
Jonathan  Horton  made  his  will,  in  1707,  his  two  young- 
est daughters  were  Abigail  and  Patience,  both  under 
eighteen  years  of  age.  In  the  Salmon  Record  occurs  the 
marriage,  Aug.  ist,  1717,*  of  Mr.  Joshua  Lamb  and 
Patience  Horton.  It  seems  extremely  probable  that  this 
Joshua  is  an  error  and  meant  for  Joseph,  for  there  was 
no  other  person  of  the  name  of  Lamb  dwelling  in  South- 
old  Town  at  that  time ;  certainly  no  other  who  was  a  per- 
son of  distinction.  The  "Mr."  in  the  Record,  as  in  in- 
scriptions on  tombs  and  in  all  writings  of  that  period,  is 
a   sign  of  distinction,  applied   only  to   ministers   of  the 

♦Probably  1717,  or  perhaps  1716.     The  date  is  incomplete  in 
the  Salmon  Record. 


■Cf2  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

gospel  and  persons  of  high  social  standing  or  official 
rank.  In  the  early  days  the  idea  of  social  rank  that 
came  with  the  colonists  from  the  old  country  were  pre- 
valent, and  for  years  the  people  were  seated  in  the  town 
church  at  Southold  according  to  their  social  consequence. 
Until  the  year  1767  the  names  of  Yale  graduates  were 
catalogued  in  the  supposed  order  of  social  rank  instead 
of  alphabetically  as  now.  When  we  see  in  the  grave- 
yard the  names  of  Mr.  Thomas  Turrill  and  Mr.  Nathaniel 
Clark  and  Mr.  John  Parker  and  Mr.  Obadiah  Hudson 
and  Mrs.  Bethiah  Hudson,  his  wife,  and  many  others 
thus  designated,  we  know  that  they  were  persons  of  rank. 
^'Mrs."  meant  not  necessarily  a  married  woman,  but  was 
often  applied  to  an  unmarried  woman  of  good  family.  The 
Mr.  Joshua  Lamb  of  the  Salmon  Record  was  probably 
therefore  Mr.  Joseph  Lamb,  fresh  from  New  Haven, 
just  taking  up  his  work  in  Mattituck,  and  making  a  fine 
beginning  by  winning  the  young  daughter  of  one  of 
Southold's  leading  families.  They  had  a  daughter,  Lydia, 
who  married  a  Clark  in  1738.  Here  the  Salmon  Record 
fails  us,  for  it  omits  the  first  name  of  this  particular 
Clark.  If  it  were  not  for  this  omission  it  might  be  pos- 
sible to  trace  the  descendants  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Lamb. 
In  all  probability  some  of  them  are  now  dwelling  in  Mat- 
tituck. He  had  a  son,  Joseph,  who  died  in  1739  and 
probably  lies  beside  his  mother  in  one  of  the  many  un- 
marked graves  in  the  church  yard. 

The  years  of  the  first  pastorate  in  Mattituck  were 
<loubtless  years  of  severe  trial*' for  both  the  pastor  and 
the  people  of  his  charge.  Up  to  that  time  the  town  pas- 
tor's salary  had  been  raised  like  the  salaries  of  civil  offi- 
cials by  regular  taxation.     The  necessary  adjustment  to 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  93 

altered  conditions  must  have  been  attended  with  many 
difficulties.  The  pastor's  salary  was  of  course  small, 
but  even  so  must  have  been  difficult  of  collection  among 
a  people  unused  to  the  voluntary  support  of  a  church  in- 
dependent of  the  tow^n,  and  a  people  few  in  numbers  and 
poor  in  purse.  With  his  wife  gone,  his  daughter  mar- 
ried and  his  son  taken  from  him,  it  is  no  wonder  that  the 
pastor  turned  to  a  new  field  of  labor. 

In  1720,  three  years  after  Mr.  Lamb's  settlement,  and 
after  the  third  church  in  the  town  had  been  organized 
at  Oyster  Ponds  (now  Orient),  it  was  decided  at  Town 
Meeting*  to  divide  the  parish  lands  "that  each  minister 
may  improve  the  same  in  proportion,  according  to  the 
first  purchase."  The  committee  to  effect  this  division 
consisted  of  Capt.  James  Reeve  of  Mattituck,  Capt. 
Booth  of  Oyster  Ponds,  and  Benjamin  Youngs  of  South- 
old.  This  committee  doubtless  performed  the  duty  as- 
signed, but  there  is  no  record  of  the  result  of  the  divi- 
sion. This  is  certain,  that  the  ]*ilattituck  parish  soon 
afterwards  owned  a  valuable  parsonage  property,  shares 
or  rights  in  which  were  handed  down  by  the  proprietors 
in  their  wills.  The  name  "parsonage,"  now  usually  re- 
stricted to  the  dwelling-house  provided  for  the  minister, 
was  then  given  to  the  land  or  farm  occupied  by  the  min- 
ister. What  we  should  call  the  "parsonage  farm"  or  the 
"parsonage  property"  was  then  called  the  parsonage, 
and  the  ancient  Mattituck  parsonage  was  what  is  com- 
monly know  as  the  "Glover  place,"  now  owned  by  the 
Rev.  Wm.  A.  Wasson,  rector  of  the  Episcopal  Church, 
and  his  brother,  the  Rev.  James  B,  Wasson. 


*Southold  Records,  Liber  D,  p.  119. 


1 

94 

A 

HISTORY    OF 

MATTITUCK. 

This 

cannot 

have 

been  a 

part 

of 

the 

town 

parish 

lands  that  were  divided  by  the  committee  in  1720,  for 
those  lands  were  in  the  old  town  bounds,  and  this  was 
a  part  of  the  property  of  Thomas  Mapes  and  had  de- 
scended to  his  heirs.  It  is  reasonable  to  suppose  that  the 
portion  of  parish  lands  that  fell  to  Mattituck  was  sold 
and  this  farm  near  the  church  was  purchased.  That  this 
exchange  cannot  be  traced  in  the  records  is  not  surpris- 
ing, for  many  transfers  of  land  were  left  unrecorded.  In 
1654*  it  was  ordered  that  all  purchases  and  exchanges 
of  lands  should  be  recorded  within  one  month,  under 
penalty  of  five  shillings,  and  for  many  years  this  law  was 
fairly  well  observed;  but  through  most  of  the  i8th  cen- 
tury the  failure  to  record  conveyances  of  land  was  ex- 
tremely common.  The  transfers  of  land  in  Mattituck 
from  the  allotment  of  1661  up  to  1700,  though  very  fre- 
quent, can  usually  be  traced,  but  from  1700  onward  the 
lines  of  title  are  obscure  in  many  instances. 

However  it  came  about,  the  parish  of  Mattituck 
owned  as  a  parsonage  some  fifty  acres  a  mile  west  of  the 
church,  fronting  on  the  North  Road  and  bounded  on  the 
west  by  Mapes'  (now  Cox's)  Lane.  There,  no  doubt, 
the  Rev.  Joseph  Lamb  lived  and  there  his  wife  Rachel 
died. 

An  interesting  document  of  the  next  generation  sur- 
vives, being  a  written  agreement  to  sell  the  parsonage. 
This  agreement  is  as  follows : 

"We  whose  Names  are  underwritten  Inhabitants  of 
Southold  in  Mattituk  Society,  having  Rights  in  the  Per- 
sonage belonging  to  Mattituk,  considering  the  Difficult 

*Southold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  I.,  p.  324. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  95 

Circumstances  in  which  it  Hes  at  present,  Do  consent 
•and  agree  that  the  same  shall  be  sold,  upon  the  Terms 
following-  (viz)  that  the  Money  arising  from  said  Sale 
shall  be  converted  to  the  Support  of  the  Gospel  in  ]\Iat- 
tituk,  and  we  also  bind  not  only  ourselves  but  our  Heirs, 
Executors,  Administrators  and  Assigns  to  the  perform- 
ance of  the  above  Terms  or  Premisses  as  witness  our 
hands  this  Ninth  Day  of  February   1769." 

This  is  in  the  handwriting  of  Deacon  Isaac  Hubbard, 
and  is  signed  b}  Isaac  Hubbard,  Barnabas  Wines.  Bar- 
nabas Terrel,  Joseph  Mapes,  Thomas  Reeve,  John  Cor- 
win,  John  Benjamin,  James  Reeve,  Henry  Pike,  James 
Halliock,  Richard  Sweesy,  Mica  Howell,  John  Gardiner, 
Ebenezer  Webb,  and  Petter  Halliock. 

The  next  month,  March  24th,  1769,  a  more  explicit 
agreement  was  signed,  providing  that  the  proceeds  of 
the  sale  of  the  parsonage  "shall  be  devoted  as  a  bank 
for  the  support  of  the  gospel  ministry  according  to  ye 
presbyterian  order  in  Mattituk,"  and  that  a  committee, 
consisting  of  Thomas  Reeve,  Micah  Howell  and  John 
•Gardiner,  and  their  successors,  "shall  have  full  power  to 
hire  out  the  sd  money  and  dispose  of  the  Interest  for 
the  support  of  the  gospel  ministry  yearly  and  not  to  have 
any  liberty  to  dispose  of  any  of  the  principal  otherwayes 
unless  it  be  to  pay  out  of  ye  principal  their  parts  that  do 
not  live  in  ye  parrish."  The  signatures  to  this  paper 
were  witnessed  by  John  Wickham  and  Joseph  Man. 

What  were  "the  difficult  circumstances"  under  which 
the  parsonage  lay  does  not  appear.  The  third  pastor,  the 
Rev.  Xehemiah  Barker,  was  here  then,  living  in  a  house 
erected  at  his  own  expense,  on  the  south  side  of  the 
North  Road,  not  far  from  the  present  Canning  Factory. 


g6  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

Perhaps  the  parsonage  building  was  out  of  repair ;  per- 
haps it  had  been  destroyed  by  fire.  None  can  tell.  There 
does  not  survive  in  Mattituck  even  a  tradition  that  there 
ever  was  such  a  parsonage. 

The  parsonage  was  sold  and  was  probably  bought  by 
Micah  Howell,  whose  descendants  afterwards  owned  it, 
but  the  deed  is  not  on  record.  The  "bank"  was  carried 
on  for  over  forty-five  years,  and  had  a  capital  of  nearly 
a  thousand  dollars.  When  the  "Union  Parish"  was  in- 
corporated, in  1817,  a  parsonage  farm  of  twenty-three 
acres  was  purchased  a  mile  east  of  the  Aquebogue  (now 
Jamesport)  Church.  That  farm  probably  represented 
the  principal  of  the  Mattituck  bank,  for  after  the  incor- 
poration of  Union  Parish  the  bank  disappears  from  his- 
tory. 

After  the  departure  of  Mr.  Lamb  the  history  of  the 
parish  is  blank  until  1747.  In  that  year  the  Presbytery 
of  Suffolk  was  organized,  covering  the  eastern  part  of 
the  old  Presbytery  of  Long  Island.  At  the  organization 
of  the  Presbytery,  at  Southampton,  Deacon  James  Reeve^ 
the  son  of  the  donor  of  the  church  lot,  was  present,  and 
subscribed  his  name,  as  a  representative  of  the  Mattituck 
Church,  to  the  covenant  of  organization  on  the  9th  of 
April,  1747.  The  next  year,  we  find  from  the  Presby- 
tery's Records,  Mattituck  Parish  applied  to  the  Presby- 
tery "requesting  Advice  with  Respect  to  a  suitable  can- 
didate for  the  Gospel  Ministry,"  and  further  that  the 
ministers  "would  afford  them  some  Relief  by  their  min- 
isterial Labours  among  them  under  their  present  desti- 
tute circumstances."  At  the  next  meeting  the  Rev.  John 
Darbe  (or  Darby),  a  recent  graduate  of  Yale  College, 
offered    himself   as    a    candidate    for    the    ministrv,   was 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


97 


licensed,  and  directed  "to  preach  to  the  Societies  of  Mat- 
tatiick  and  Aquebaug  alternately  till  further  orders,  they 
having  made  application  for  supplies."  The  Aquebogue 
Parish  had  been  established  between  1720  and  1730, 
with  its  meeting  house  erected  in  1731  at  the  place  known 
since  1835  ^^  Jamesport.     Its  pastor,  the  Rev.  Nathaniel 


DARBY'S  BRANCH. 


Mather,  died  in   1748,  the  year  before   Mr.   Darby  was 
directed  to  preach  there  and  in  Mattituck. 

Mr.  Darby  came  to  Mattituck  in  April,  1749,  and 
continued  to  supply  the  two  churches  for  two  years.  He 
probably  occupied  the  Mattituck  parsonage  property,  and 
it  is  presumably  from  him  that  "Darby's  Branch,"  reach- 
ing out  from  the  west  side  of  Mattituck  Creek  to  the 
north  end  of  the  parsonage  land,  takes  its  name.     At  th.e 


98  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

end  of  Mr.  Darby's  first  year  Mattituck  had  its  first  and 
only  heresy  trial.  The  Presbytery  was  compelled  to 
send  a  conmiittee  to  Mattituck  to  "inquire  into  some 
things  alleged  by  some  against  doctrines  delivered  in  his 
public  preaching  and  countenanced  in  his  private  con- 
versation." The  committee,  consisting  of  the  Rev. 
Messrs.  Ebenezer  Prime,  Samuel  Buell,  David  Youngs 
and  James  Browne,  repaired  to  Mattituck,  treated  the 
people  to  a  sermon  by  Mr.  Prime  in  the  morning,  heard 
and  considered  the  charges  presented  by  Mr.  Barnabas 
Turrel  in  the  afternoon,  took  recess  for  the  night,  met 
again  at  7  o'clock  in  the  morning,  completed  the  investi- 
gation, which  included  the  reading  of  some  of  Mr.  Dar- 
by's sermon  manuscripts,  and  found  that  there  was  not 
sufficient  ground  for  the  complaints.  It  seems  that  the 
chief  part  of  the  congregation  feared  that  this  unfortu- 
nate opposition  would  drive  Mr.  Darby  away,  and  they 
asked,  "That  the  Presbytery  would  improve  their  inter- 
est and  influence  with  Mr,  Darby,  engaging  him  to  con- 
tinue with  them  some  months  longer."  The  Presbytery 
left  it  to  his  discretion  whether  to  go  or  to  remain.  At 
the  next  meeting,  in  October,  1750,  the  same  permission 
was  renewed,  and  shortly  after  he  seems  to  have  with- 
drawn, though  just  when  is  uncertain. 

At  Southampton,  May  27th,  1752,  a  call  from  the 
united  parishes  of  Mattituck  and  Aquebogue  was  placed 
by  the  Presbytery  in  the  hands  of  the  Rev.  Joseph  Park 
and  by  him  accepted.  It  appears  from  Mr.  Park's  Rec- 
ord of  Marriages  that  he  was  in  Mattituck  as  early  as 
January,  175 1.  He  was  installed  in  the  Mattituck  Meet- 
ing House,  June  9th,  1752,  pastor  of  the  two  neighboring 
parishes.     His  ministry  here  was  brief,  for  he  was  dis- 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  99 

missed  by  the  Presbytery,  Feb.  nth,  1756,  and  removed 
to  New  England.  But  he  deserves  to  be  held  in  lasting 
remembrance  and  gratitude  in  the  parish,  for  he  kept  a 
Record  and  left  the  book  behind  him  for  his  successors 
to  continue. 

The  following  account  of  his  call  and  installation, 
copied  from  the  opening  pages  of  his  Record  Book,  is  in- 
teresting : 

"May  ye  27th  1752.  Attended  the  Presbytery  at  South 
Hampton  with  Deacon  James  Reeve  and  Nath'll  Warner 
Esqr,  the  Societies'  Committee  to  represent  to  ye  Ven- 
erable Presbytery  ye  Call  given  to  Revd  Joseph  Park  to 
the  Pastoral  Office  &c.  After  Consideration  the  follow- 
ing letter  was  sent  by  the  Presbytery: 

"The  Presbytery  of  Suffolk  County  met  at  South 
Hampton  May  ye  27.  1752.  To  ye  Churches  at  Matta- 
tuck  and  Aquabaug,  Greeting  : 

^'Dear  Brethren  in  the  Lord  : 

"In  Compliance  with  your  Request  to  us  we  being 
freely  Willing  and  ready  to  promote  your  Spiritual  In- 
terests and  rejoicing  in  your  Desires  and  Endeavours  to 
have  the  Gospel  Worship  established  among  you,  have 
concluded  to  meet  at  ye  house  of  Capt  Barnabas  Wines 
junior  on  ye  9th  of  June  next  at  8  o'clock  in  the  Morn- 
ing in  order  to  the  Enstallment  of  your  desired  Pastor 
over  you  the  next  Day,  if  God  in  his  Providence  shall 
make  the  way  clear  for  our  Proceeding.  And  that  things 
may  be  done  regularly  and  according  to  the  Gospel,  we 
request  and  advise  that  those  who  have  been  members 
in  full  Communion  should  meet  among  yourselves  to  get 
into  some  readiness  to  unite  together  in  a  Church  state 


lOO  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

under  ye  particular  Pastoral  Care  of  ye  Revd  Mr.  Park, 
that  if  there  should  be  Objection  against  any  of  the 
Brethren  or  any  thing  of  this  Nature,  it  may  be  settled 
and  accommodated  in  an  orderly  way. 

"We  likewise  desire  that  all  the  members  Male  and 
Female  in  full  Communion  would  meet  with  us  at  ye 
time  and  Place  above  mentioned  to  make  ready  for  your 
publick  receiving  of  ye  Revd  Mr.  Park  as  your  Pastor 
under  Christ. 

"We  likewise  advise  you  to  set  apart  a  Day  for  pub- 
lick  solemn  Fasting  and  Prayer  to  God  for  his  gracious 
Influences  and  Blessings  to  succeed  your  Undertaking 
to  his  Glory  and  your  Souls'  spiritual  good,  and  that 
you  all  unanimously  seek  those  things  which  make  for 
Peace  and  mutual  Edification  in  [illegible]. 

"Praying  that  the  God  of  Peace  may  be  with  you 
and  bless  you  with  all  Spiritual  Blessings  in  Christ 
Jesus,  we  remain  your  hearty  Friends,  your  souls'  well 
wishers,  and  Servants  in  our  common  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

"SiLVs.  White,  Moderator" 

"June  ye  4th  1752.  Set  apart  a  Day  of  publick  Fast- 
ing and  Prayer  to  God  for  his  Direction  and  Blessing  in 
resettling  into  a  Church  State.  The  Revd  Mess.  Throop 
and  Paine  attended  and  assisted.  Revd  Mr.  Throop 
preach'd  A.  M.  fr.  Coll.  4.3.  P.  M.  I  preach'd  fr.  Luke 
17.  7-10." 

Then  follows  a  certified  copy  of  minutes  of  Presby- 
tery: 

"Met  at  Mattatuck  June  ye  9.  1752  according  to  the 
previous  appointment  of  ye  Presbytery.  Present,  Mes- 
sieurs  ye   Revd    Sylvs   White,    Azariah   Horton,    Samll 


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Buell  and-  James  Brown.  Mr  White  chosen  Modr.  Mr. 
Horton  Clerk. 

"Post  Preces  Sederunt  qui  Supra. 

"The  following  Persons  belonging  to  ye  Pastoral 
Care  of  ye  Revd  Mr  Lamb,  and  to  the  Pastoral  Care  of 
ye  Revd  Mr.  Mather,  or  to  any  other  Churches,  who 
now  live  among  them,  agreed  to  embody  and  become  one 
incorporated  Church,  and  in  Consequence  hereof  have 
chosen  the  Revd  Mr  Joseph  Park  to  be  yr  Pastor,  and 
will  be  ready  on  ye  Day  of  his  Installment  to  give  yr 
publick  Consent  by  yr  Representatives  to  set  under  his 
Ministry,  to  be  under  his  Pastoral  Watch  and  yield  sub- 
mission to  him  as  in  the  Lord,  and  further  that  they  will 
walk  in  ye  Faith,  Fellowship  and  Order  of  the  Gospel, 
as  Members  of  one  and  the  same  Body  and  do  now  give 
yr  own  personal  express  Consent  hereto.  Lieut  Thos 
Reeve,  Nath'll  Warner  Esq.,  Isaac  Hubbard,  Esq.,  James 
Reeve,  Esq.,  Hezekiah  Reeve,  Sam'll  Clark,  junr,  Joshua 
Wells,  junr,  Deborah  Reeve,  Sarah  Reeve,  Bethia  Terril, 
Bethia  Hubbard,  Anne  Hubbard,  Hannah  Corwin,  Kezia 
Brown,  Elizabeth  Corwin,  Mary  Warner,  Mary  Parshill, 
Mary  Reeve,  Mary  Leek,  Rebekah  Johnson,  Mary  Arm- 
strong and  Hannah  Soper. 

"The  Presbytery  finding  the  way  clear  appointed  The 
Installment  of  the  Revd  Mr  Joseph  Park  to  be  attended 
tomorrow  morning  at  lo  of  ye  Clock. 

"June  ye  lo  Attended  the  Installment  according  to 
appointment.  Mr.  Horton  began  the  solemnity  with 
Prayer.  Mr.  Buell  preached  fr  i  Tim.  4.16.  Mr.  White 
presided,  took  Mr.  Park's  Engagement  to  the  People, 
and  ye  Engagement  to  Him  by  ye  representative  Com- 
mittee, and  gave  the  Charge.     Mr.  Brown  made  an  ad- 


I02  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

dress  to  ye  People.     Mr,  Throop  made  the  last  Prayer. 
Mr,  Park  pronounced  the  Blessing, 

"Ordered  the  Minutes  of  ye  Presbytery  to  be  read. 
Concluded  with  Prayer, 

"A  true  Copy  attested  by 

"Sylv.  White,  Mod 

"AZAR,    HORTON,    Clk." 

This  document  gives  the  earliest  attainable  list  of 
the  members  of  the  Mattituck  Church — or  rather  of  the 
united  churches  of  Mattituck  and  Aquebogue — 7  males 
and  15  females — the  remnant  of  the  flocks  of  Mr,  Lamb 
in  Mattituck,  and  Mr,  Mather  in  Aquebogue. 

The  Aquebogue  Church,  whose  interests  were  linked 
with  Mattituck's  for  a  hundred  years  from  this  time,  ex- 
cept for  an  interval  between  1759  and  1788,  was  organ- 
ized about  1725,  Some  of  the  timbers  of  the  meeting 
house  built  in  1731  are  said  to  remain  to  this  day  in  the 
Jamesport  Church. 

During  the  latter  part  of  Mr,  Mather's  pastorate  the 
Aquebogue  congregation,  like  many  others  at  that  time, 
became  sadly  disturbed  and  divided  by  a  religious  earth- 
quake that  caused  all  the  foundations  to  tremble,  and 
made  rents  and  upheavals  in  the  religious  world  of  which 
signs  remain  to  this  day.  This  was  the  time  of  George 
Whitefield's  famous  evangelistic  tours  through  all  the 
colonies  from  Georgia  to  New  England.  There  was  a 
wonderful  religious  awakening  and  thousands  were  con- 
verted. But  as  always  in  this  world  evil  is  mixed  with 
the  good,  there  arose  sad  contentions  in  this  time  of  re- 
vival. As  when  iron  filings  are  shaken  in  a  magnetic 
field  they  group  themselves  about  the  opposite  poles  of 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  IO3 

the  magnet,  so  in  the  rehgions  agitation  of  those  days 
most  men  became  extremists,  either  as  conservatives 
strenuously  opposing  the  new  and  strange  developments, 
or  on  the  other  hand  going  beyond  reasonable  bounds 
in  a  zeal  for  religious  excitement  and  emotional  irregu- 
larities. The  Old  Lights  and  the  New  Lights  opposed 
each  other  bitterly,  the  former  accusing  the  latter  of 
fanatical  extravagancies  and  zeal  without  knowledge, 
the  latter  charging  the  former  with  dead  formalism.  The 
Rev.  James  Davenport,  the  fourth  pastor  of  Southold, 
was  a  type  of  the  latter,  claiming  to  be  led  by  special 
spiritual  illumination,  preaching  with  high  emotionalism, 
denouncing  the  more  conservative  ministers  as  spirtually 
dead,  and  calling  upon  the  people  in  the  churches  to  for- 
sake their  "blind  guides"  and  those  who  adhered  to  them, 
urging  the  Biblical  injunction,  "Come  out  from  among 
them  and  be  ye  separate."  Those  who  followed  this  in- 
junction were  known  as  "Separates."  The  Upper  Aque- 
bogue  Church,  founded  in  1758,  was  an  outgrowth  of 
this  separation.  The  Lower  Aquebogue  Church  was 
sorely  rent.  In  a  footnote  to  his  minutes  of  April,  1747,. 
the  Clerk  of  the  Presbytery  writes,  "As  some  of  Mr. 
Mather's  Church  and  Congregation  had  turned  Sepa- 
rates, so  others  appear'd  to  have  a  List  that  way."  In 
all  probability  the  charges  brought  by  Barnabas  Terrell 
against  the  Rev.  John  Darby  were  an  outgrowth  of  the 
same  controversy.  It  is  noticeable  that  Mr.  Terrell, 
though  still  living,  was  not  among  the  members  who 
joined  in  receiving  Mr.  Park  as  their  pastor.  Perhaps 
others  also  in  Mattituck  had  separated  themselves, 
though  there  is  no  evidence  that  the  Mattituck  church 
was  seriouslv  torn  bv  the  controversies  of  the  time.   Prob- 


I04  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

ably  the  membership  had  never  been  very  large,  and  eight 
or  ten  years  without  a  pastor  would  naturally  account 
for  some  shrinkage.  At  any  rate,  there  were  only 
twenty-two  communicants,  representing  the  two  churches, 
upon  Mr.  Park's  taking  up  the  pastorate. 

Of  these  twenty-two  members,  fourteen  belonged  cer- 
tainly to  Mattituck,  five  to  Aquebogue  and  the  residence 
of  the  other  three,  Mary  Leek,  Rebekah  Johnson  and 
Mary  Armstrong,  is  uncertain. 

The  first  named,  Lieut.  Thomas  Reeve,  now  a  man  of 
65  years,  was  the  Thomas  Reeve  who  had  settled  some 
forty  years  before  near  the  present  residence  of  Bryant 
S.  Conklin,  north  of  the  highway.  His  brother  James, 
who  gave  the  land  for  the  church,  had  died  in  1732. 

Nathaniel  Warner,  Esq.,  was  of  Aquebogue,  and  was 
the  son-in-law  of  Capt.  James  Reeve,  the  donor  of  the 
land, 

Isaac  Hubbard,  Esq.,  was  the  first  of  the  Hubbards, 
so  far  as  known,  in  Mattituck.  The  Bethiah  Hubbard, 
mentioned  later  in  the  list,  was  his  wife.  They  were  the 
parents  of  John  Hubbard  who  kept  the  hotel,  and  of 
Deacon  Nathaniel  Hubbard,  and  of  Anne  Hubbard,  men- 
tioned in  the  list  of  communicants.  Bethiah  Hubbard 
was  daughter  of  Thomas  and  Bethiah  (Terry)  Gold- 
smith, and  granddaughter  of  Richard  Terry,  one  of  the 
original  settlers  of  Southold. 

James  Reeve,  Esq.,  was  the  eldest  son  of  Capt.  James 
Reeve,  was  then  a  man  of  40  years,  and  succeeded  his 
father  and  grandfather  on  the  Furrier  property.  The 
Mary  Reeve  mentioned  later  was  his  wife,  Mary  Hud- 
son, the  daughter  of  Robert  Hudson,  Esq.,  of  East 
Hampton. 


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Hezekiah  Reeve  was  a  cousin  of  Lieut.  Thomas  and 
Capt.  James  Reeve,  being  son  of  Joseph  and  grandson  of 
I  St  Thomas.     It  is  uncertain  when  he  located  in  Matti- 


MRS.    ENCY  HUBBARD   CLEVELAND, 

Daughter  of  Deacon  Nathaniel  Hubbard,  wife  of  the  late 
Moses  C.  Cleveland,  of  Southold. 

tuck.  He  was  twice  married,  both  of  his  wives  being 
Mattituck  women.  He  married  in  1709  Jerusha  Hallock, 
•daughter  of  2d  Wilham.  She  died  in  1738,  and  in  1739 
he  married  Rachel  Alapes.     His  youngest  son  was  Pur- 


I06  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

rier  Reeve,  named  for  his  great-great-grandfather  Pur- 
rier. 

Samuel  Clark,  Jr.,  was  son  of  Samuel  Clark  who  lived 
near  the  residence  of  La  Monte  Gould. 

Joshua  Wells,  Jr.,  was  probably  the  son  of  Craavit 
Wells  and  Sarah,  the  daughter  of  Capt.  James  and  Deb- 
orah Reeve.  He  is  mentioned  in  the  will  of  his  grand- 
mother, Deborah.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Aquebogue 
Church. 

Deborah  Reeve  was  the  widow  of  Capt.  James,  liv- 
ing with  her  son,  James  Reeve,  Esq. 

Sarah  may  have  been  daughter  of  William,  son  of  ist 
Thomas. 

Bethiah  Terrell  was  the  eldest  daughter  of  Barnabas 
Terrell.  The  following  year  she  married  Major  Silas 
Horton  of  Cutchogue,  and  after  his  death  she  married 
John  Wickham. 

Hannah  and  Elizabeth  Corwin  were  both  of  Matti- 
tuck.  Hannah  was  Hannah  Ramsay,  wife  of  2d  Theo- 
philus,  who  lived  on  the  line  of  the  old  highway  near 
Jas.  J.  Kirkup's  farm  house.  Elizabeth  was  Elizabeth- 
Goldsmith,  wife  of  3d  John.  Keziah  Brown  was  of  the 
Aquebogue  Church. 

Mary  Warner  was  of  Aquebogue,  probably  the  daugh- 
ter of  Nathaniel. 

Mary  Parshill  was  the  widow  of  Capt.  Israel  Parshall 
who  had  died  in  {738.  His  first  wife  was  Joanna  Swezy 
and  her  tombstone  is  in  the  Mattituck  graveyard.  His 
second  wife  was  the  Widow  Terry,  who  was  Mary  Gar- 
diner, daughter  of  David.  Capt.  Israel  and  his  second 
wife  were  cousins.  He  was  son  of  James  Parshall,  Gen- 
tleman, and  Elizabeth  (Gardiner)  Parshall,  the  daughter 


A    HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  10/ 

of  David  the  son  of  Lyon.  Israel  Parshall  bought  land 
in  Aquebogue  west  of  Mattituck  and  north  of  the  North 
Road  in  1705  and  1724.  He  had  one  son,  Israel,  who 
removed  to  Orange  County,  as  did  many  other  men  of 
Southold  Town.  He  had  five  daughters :  Jemima  who 
married  Jonathan  Terry,  Joanna  who  married  Christo- 
pher Youngs,  Elizabeth  who  married  Joseph  Davis,. 
Kezia  who  married  Joseph  Mapes,  and  Experience  who 
married  Daniel  Reeve. 

Mary  Leek,  Rebekah  Johnson  and  Mary  Armstrong 
it  is  difficult  to  place.  Philip  Leek,  perhaps  husband  of 
Mary,  united  with  the  church  the  next  year. 

Hannah  Soper  belonged  to  a  family  that  appears  in 
the  Church  Records  for  some  years.  In  1755  Ebenezer 
Soper  was  baptized  and  united  with  the  church.  They 
were  probably  husband  and  wife.  In  1762  Rachel  Soper,. 
probably  their  daughter,  married  John  Clark,  Jr.  John 
and  Rachel  (Soper)  Clark  had  children,  John,  Dorothy,. 
Hannah,  Mary,  Desire,  and'  Ebenezer  Soper. 

Mr.  Park  brought  with  him  his  wife,  Abigail,  a  son 
Thomas  and  a  daughter  Anne.  These  three  were  re- 
ceived into  the  church  on  certificate  from  "The  Chris- 
tian Church  or  Society  in  Charles  Town,"  Mass.  From 
this  we  gather  that,  unlike  his  predecessors  and  most  of 
his  successors,  he  was  a  man  no  longer  young  when  he 
came  to  Mattituck.  During  his  ministry  there  were 
added  to  the  church,  besides  his  wife  and  children,  Philip 
Leek,  Abigail  Horton,  wife  of  John,  Jr.,  Isaac  Howell, 
Mary  Wells,  wife  of  Deacon  Joshua,  and  Ebenezer  Soper,. 
making  the  communicants  thirty  in  all. 

Mr.  Park  baptized  no  less  than  83  children  during 
four  years  in  Mattituck  and  Aquebogue.    These  of  course 


I08  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

were  not  all,  or  many  of  them,  children  of  the  little  band 
of  communicants.  It  was  customary  then  in  the  churches 
of  New  England  and  Long  Island  to  baptize  on  the  "half- 
way covenant,"  or  the  "indulgent  plan,"  as  it  was  some- 
times called.  Parents  who  themselves  had  been  baptized, 
though  not  communicants,  upon  owning  the  baptismal 
covenant  were  permitted  to  present  their  children  for 
baptism.  The  fact  that  baptisms  averaged  more  than 
twenty  a  year  shows  that  most  of  the  families  in  the 
neighborhood  were  adherents  of  the  church. 

The  parish  was  large,  extending  from  the  limits  of 
Cutchogue  parish,  which  was  organized  in  1732,  indefin- 
itely westward.  The  Brookhaven  parish,  with  its  Meet- 
ing House  at  Setauket,  was  the  nearest  in  that  direction. 
The  county  court  house  had  stood  "at  the  River  head" 
for  some  twenty  years,  but  there  were  few  dwellings 
near  it  and  no  church.  Frequently  Mr.  Park  preached 
in  private  houses,  and  baptized  children,  as  far  west  as 
^'the  Wading  River"  and  "St.  George's  Manor,"  and  so 
did  his  successors  for  many  years. 

The  following  entry  in  Mr.  Park's  Record  Book  is 
interesting  and  sheds  light  upon  the  ecclesiastical  cus- 
toms of  the  time : 

"July  ye  14th  1752.  Att  a  Church  Meeting  regularly 
appointed  and  called  at  Mattituck  Meeting  House,  then 
and  there  the  following  Votes  were  passed  by  the 
Church : 

"Vote  I.  That  the  Sacrament  of  the  Lord's  Supper 
shall  be  attended  every  Seventh  Sabbath  after  every 
Sacrament,  alternately  at  Mattituck  and  Aquabauge. 

"Vote  2.  That  Ordinarily  Every  One  who  ofifer 
themselves  to  full  Communion  with  this  Church  shall  be 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  IO9 

propounded  three  Sabbaths  before  the  Sacrament,  And 
on  the  Lecture  preparatory  to  the  Sacrament  shall  offer 
themselves  to  the  Church  Acceptance." 

This  shows  that  candidates  for  admission  to  the  full 
communion  appeared  not  before  the  session,  but  before 
the  Church,  according  to  the  practice  in  Congregational 
churches.  Confession  of  scandalous  sins,  as  of  drunken- 
ness or  breach  of  the  seventh  commandment,  were  also 
made  before  the  whole  church,  and  it  was  not  until  1767 
that  the  session  was  recognized,  and  "at  a  meeting  of  the 
Church  of  Christ  in  jMattituck  it  was  voted,  That  as  for 
public  Confession  Cases  that  require  it.  It  shall  be  made 
as  usual  in  the  broad  Alley  before  the  Congregation,  Or 
before  the  Session,  and  declared  by  the  Minister  to  the 
Congregation  to  have  been  there  made  upon  the  follow- 
ing Sabbath  or  as  soon  as  He  may  judge  convenient  after 
said  Confession  is  made  before  the  Session." 

The  eastern  end  of  Long  Island  in  its  settlement  was 
really  a  part  of  New  England,  and  the  churches  were 
the  churches  of  the  New  England  Puritans.  Many  of 
them  were  Presbyterian,  but  their  type  of  Presbyterian- 
ism  was  different  from  the  Scotch  type  which  has  become 
the  prevailing  Presbyterianism  of  the  United  States.  The 
Constitution  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United 
States  of  America  is  practically  the  Constitution  of  the 
Scotch  Church,  in  which  the  session  is  the  governing 
body,  and  the  Ruling  Elder  is  an  essential  officer,  while 
the  Deacon,  not  a  member  of  the  session,  is  a  subordinate 
officer,  having  charge  of  the  funds  collected  for  the  poor, 
and  sometimes  of  the  temporalities  of  the  congregation. 
In  the  New  England  and  Long  Island  churches  there 
was  no  session,  there  were  no  elders,  and  the  deacon  was- 


no  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

the  chief  officer  after  the  minister.  As  far  as  the  Records 
inform  us,  there  were  no  elders  elected  in  the  Mattituck 
Church  until  1790,  and  then  and  long  after  deacons  were 
still  elected  with  dignity  and  authority  at  least  equal  to 
the  elders.  The  first  regular  record  of  a  session  meeting 
in  this  church  is  of  date,  Dec.  226,  1826.  The  inscrip- 
tions in  the  burying  ground  show  how  precious  and  hon- 
orable was  the  name  "Deacon."  If  a  deacon  died  his 
title  was  sure  to  be  engraved  upon  his  tombstone.  In 
several  instances  the  same  man  was  elected  both  deacon 
and  elder.  His  monument  in  the  church  yard  will  show 
that  the  "Deacon"  was  buried  there.  And  to  this  day 
the  name  "Deacon"  is  sacred  in  the  ears  of  Long  Island- 
ers as  of  New  Englanders.  Few  of  the  churches  of  east- 
ern Long  Island  have  the  deacon  of  the  now  established 
system,  probably  because  it  goes  against  the  grain  to  con- 
fer the  sacred  name  upon  an  inferior  officer.  Thomas 
Reeve  and  his  nephew  James  Reeve  were  already  deacons 
when  Mr.  Park  came  to  Mattituck.  Joshua  Wells,  rep- 
resenting Aquebogue,  was  chosen  a  deacon  of  the  church 

in   1755- 

Mr.  Park  seems  to  have  been  useful  and  acceptable 
in  his  charge,  but  the  people  found  it  difficult  to  support 
him.  At  his  request  he  was  released  by  the  Presbytery 
from  his  pastorate,  Feb.  nth,  1756,  and  he  removed  to 
New  England.  At  that  time  ministers  were  not  so  hard 
to  secure  as  in  the  early  days  of  the  parish,  but  they 
were  still  far  less  numerous  than  the  churches,  and  Mat- 
tituck and  Aquebogue  were  fortunate  in  securing  a  new 
minister  almost  immediately. 

The  Rev.  Nehemiah  Barker  was  pastor  of  the  South 
Church   in   Killingly,    Conn.     The   people  of   Mattituck 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  I  I  I 

and  Aquebogue  invited  him  to  visit  them  with  a  view 
to  settlement.  On  his  way  he  visited  the  Presbytery, 
meeting  at  Southampton,  Jmie  2d,  1756,  and  that  body 
expressed  approval  of  the  proposed  settlement.  Un- 
daunted by  their  recent  difficulty  in  caring  for  the  tem- 
poral needs  of  Mr.  Park,  the  congregation  agreed  to  pay 
the  expenses  of  moving  Mr.  Barker's  family  from  Kill- 
ingly,  in  addition  to  providing  a  stipulated  salary,  and, 
alas,  this  caused  trouble  afterwards. 

Mr.  Barker  was  a  remarkably  fine  penman,  and  his 
records  are  beautifully  engrossed.  The  first  entry  in  his 
Journal  is,  "July  [1756]  John  Corwin  and  Sarah  his  wife 
owned  their  Baptismal  Covenant  and  John  their  first 
born  was  baptized."  John  Corwin  and  Sarah  Hubbard 
had  been  married  March  20th,  1755,  by  Mr.  Park.  To 
show  how  closely  those  days  are  linked  with  these :  the 
■child  baptized  that  July  day  in  1755  became  Major  John 
Corwin,  who  was  the  grandfather  of  the  late  Mrs. 
Bethiah  (Reeve)  Cox.  John  Corwin  the  senior  became 
an  elder  in  1790,  and  was  accordingly  known  as  Deacon 
John  Corwin.  and  is  so  described  on  his  tombstone.  He 
•died  in  1817.  aged  81.  His  great-granddaughter,  Mrs. 
Cox,  who  died  in  her  ninety-second  year,  in  1902,  in  the 
full  and  happy  possession  of  her  mental  faculties,  re- 
membered him  distinctly.  Thus  these  two  lives  that 
touched  each  other  in  the  early  part  of  the  last  century, 
spanned  the  years  from  1736  to  1902. 

Between  Dec,  1756,  and  Oct.,  1770,  a  space  of  four- 
teen years,  Mr.  Barker  solemnized  sixty  marriages,  all 
the  well-known  family  names  of  the  neighborhood  ap- 
pearing in  the  list.  And  during  these  few  ye^rs  he  per- 
formed no  less  than  one  hundred  and  seventy  baptisms. 


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He  received  twenty-four  persons  into  the  communion  of 
the  church.    These  were : 

Ruth  Goldsmith,  widow  of  Joshua,  the  eldest  son  of 
Joseph  Goldsmith  the  blacksmith.  Ruth  was  a  daughter 
of  Deacon  Thomas  Reeve. 

Zerubabel  Halliock,  who  w-as  received  in  January, 
1761,  and  died  the  following  April.  He  w^as  a  son  of 
Thomas,  and  grandson  of  William,  one  of  the  first  set- 
tlers of  Mattituck.  The  name  Zerubabel  was  carried 
through  four  generations,  ist  Zerubabel  married  Esther 
Osman  in  1719,  and  had  sons,  Zerubabel,  James,  Joseph 
and  Benjamin,  and  daughters  Esther,  who  married  ist 
Richard  Steer  Hubbard,  and  Eunice,  who  married  4th 
Barnabas  Wines.  Nearly  all  of  the  old  families  of  Mat- 
tituck have  the  blood  of  Zerubabel  Halliock  in  their 
veins. 

James  Reeve,  Jr.,  was  the  4th  James  Reeve.  He  was 
a  Lieutenant,  and  had  married  in  1755  Anna  Wines, 
daughter  of  3d  Barnabas  and  Bethiah  (Terrell)  Wines. 
John  Williamson,  of  the  Williamsons  of  Laurel. 
Phebe  How^ell,  widow  of  Isaac,  son  of  ist  Richard. 
.She  was  mother  of  Daniel  and  Micah,  and  of  daughters 
Phebe,  Rachel  and  Hannah,  the  first  of  whom  married 
Nathan  Corwin  and  the  second  Jonathan  Corwin. 

Esther  Hubbard,  the  daughter  of  Zerubabel  Halliock 
and  wife  of  Richard  Steer  Hubbard. 

John  Clark,  son  of  John,  Sr.,  and  Anna  Clark.  Mar- 
ried, in  1762,  Rachel  Soper. 

Thomas  Reeve,  only  son  of  Deacon  Thomas,  and 
brother  of  the  widow  Ruth  Goldsmith  above.  His  wife 
was  Keziah  Mapes,  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Keziah  (Par- 
shall)  Mapes. 


'114  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

Sarah  Howell,  wife  of  Micah. 

Phebe  Tuthill,  wife  of  Henry.  Their  daughter  Anna 
married  John  Cleaves  Symmes,  whose  daughter  Anna 
married  William  Henry  Harrison,  9th  President  of  the 
United  States. 

Keziah  Reeve,  wife  of  Thomas  above. 

Anna  Clark,  wife  of  John,  Sr.,  and  mother  of  John 
above. 

Deborah  Reeve,  perhaps  a  daughter  of  Deacon  James, 

William  Wells,  5th  Wm.  Wells  (1743-1825).  Grand- 
father of  Joseph  Wells  of  Laurel.  He  was  a  harness 
maker,  and  married  in  1769  Hannah  Goldsmith,  sister 
of  the  Rev.  Benjamin  Goldsmith.  He  built  the  house 
now  the  home  of  Joel  Howell  and  lived  there  until  the 
outbreak  of  war,  when  he  moved  to  Connecticut,  where 
his  son  John  was  born.  In  1789  he  purchased  the  Wells 
farm  in  Laurel. 

Obadiah  Hudson.  Lived  south  of  road  near  Geo.  H. 
Fischer's  ice  house,  owning  the  land  through  from  the 
Lake  to  the  Sound. 

Bethiah  Hudson,  wife  of  Obadiah,  and  daughter  of 
Capt.  Isaac  and  Bethiah  (Terry)  Hubbard. 

Sarah  Wells,  daughter  of  Cravit  and  Sarah  (Reeve) 
Wells. 

John  Clark,  Sr.,  father  of  John  above. 

Peter  Halloc,  son  of  Peter,  and  grandson  of  ist  Wil- 
liam. 

Joanna  Halloc,  wife  of  Peter. 

Dorcas,  "negro  wench  of  Peter  Halloc";  wife  of 
Pomp. 

Experience  Corwin,  widow  of  Samuel,  son  of  2d 
Theophilus. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  II5 

Hannah  Wells,  wife  of  William  above,  daughter  of 
3d  John  Goldsmith  and  sister  of  Rev.  Benjamin  Gold- 
smith. 

Selah  Reeve,  fourth  son  of  Deacon  James. 

Mr.  Barker  and  his  wife  Elizabeth  came  to  Mattituck 
with  a  little  daughter,  about  a  year  old,  bearing  her 
mother's  name.  They  had  three  children  born  in  Matti- 
tuck, all  daughters,  Bethiah,  Mary  and  Hannah.  Bethiah 
died  in  her  fourteenth  year.  These  four  might  be  sup- 
posed to  have  been  "the  daughters  of  the  parsonage,"  but 
they  were  not,  for  Mr.  Barker  was  at  the  expense  of 
erecting  his  own  house,  as  he  had  occasion  to  tell  the 
Presbytery,  and  the  parsonage  was  sold  during  his  resi- 
dence in  Mattituck,  in  1769,  as  has  been  stated.  His 
house  stood  on  the  south  side  of  the  North  Road,  not 
far  from  the  site  of  the  canning  factory. 

Like  his  predecessor,  Mr.  Barker  was  constrained  to 
ask  the  advice  of  the  Presbytery  because  of  defect  in  his 
temporal  support,  and  it  appears  that  the  agreement  to 
defray  the  expense  of  moving  his  family  was  not  ful- 
filled. The  Presbytery  urged  the  two  churches  to  fulfill 
their  engagement,  and  gave  Mr.  Barker  liberty  to  go  or 
remain.  In  1759  he  was  provisionally  dismissed,  being 
recommended  to  the  New  England  churches  in  case  he 
should  conclude  to  leave.  He  settled  the  matter  by  with- 
drawing from  Aquebogue  and  remaining  in  Mattituck. 
At  what  precise  time  he  ceased  to  minister  in  Aquebogue 
is  uncertain.  It  must  have  been  about  1759  or  1760.  In 
1764  Benjamin  Goldsmith  was  ordained  and  installed 
pastor  of  Aquebogue,  and  the  records  speak  of  "ye  reset- 
tling of  ye  Gospel  Ministry  at  Aquabauge"  at  that  time. 
It  appears  that  the  two  churches  that  could  not  support 


Il6  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

one  minister  between  them,  did  better  when  each  had  the 
responsibiHty  alone. 

Mr.  Barker  was  never  installed  as  pastor  in  Matti- 
tuck,  but  acted  as  a  stated  supply.  In  1771  he  had  it  in 
view  "to  settle  with  them  as  pastor  for  life,"  so  that  his 
relations  with  the  people  of  Mattituck  must  have  been 
altogether  kindly.  Alas  for  human  plans,  however,  he 
died  the  next  year,  March  loth,  1772,  in  the  52d  year 
of  his  age.  The  last  entry  in  his  records  bears  date  of 
Oct.  27th,  177 1.  At  the  Presbytery  meeting  in  Huntington 
that  month  he  was  present.  In  the  Presbytery's  minutes 
of  the  next  April  his  death  is  noted.  It  would  seem 
that  he  was  suddenly  laid  aside  from  active  labor  after 
his  trip  to  the  October  meeting  of  Presbytery,  continued 
all  through  the  winter,  and  died  in  the  early  spring.  He 
was  the  first  minister  of  this  church  to  die  in  its  service, 
and  he  was  laid  to  rest  in  the  church-yard  beside  his 
little  daughter's  fresh-made  grave. 

His  widow  and  her  three  children  continued  to  re- 
side in  Mattituck,  and  we  may  be  sure  that  she  was  most 
kindly  befriended  by  the  people.  Four  years  later  Mrs. 
Barker  became  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  John  Davenport, 
then  supplying  this  church,  and  her  eldest  daughter, 
Elizabeth,  married  Joseph   Prince,  of  Southold  village. 

For  some  time  after  Mr.  Barker's  death  the  neigh- 
boring ministers,  the  Rev.  Benjamin  Goldsmith  of  Aque- 
bogue  among  the  number,  saw  that  the  Mattituck  pulpit 
was  supplied  at  least  once  a  month. 

At  the  Presbytery  at  South  Hampton,  October,  1772, 
the  Rev.  Jesse  Ives,  "a  member  of  ye  Eastern  Associa- 
tion of  New  London  District,"  was  present  as  a  corre- 
sponding member,  and  the  Presbytery  signified  its  ap- 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  II7 

proval  when  Deacon  Micah  Howell  reported  that  the 
Mattituck  Church  had  invited  Mr.  Ives  "to  Come  and 
Preach  among  them."  All  that  is  known  further  of  the 
Rev.  Jesse  Ives  is  that  he  baptized  a  few  children  here 
between  Sept.,  1772,  and  June,  1773,  and  solemnized  one 
marriage. 

It  is  not  generally  known  that  Alattituck  and  Cutch- 
ogue  were  at  one  time  under  the  care  of  the  same  min- 
ister, but  such  was  the  case  for  two  years.  In  June, 
1774,  John  Davenport,  son  of  the  famous  James  Daven- 
port, the  fourth  pastor  of  Southold,  then  recently  grad- 
uated from  Princeton  College,  was  ordained  by  the 
Presbytery  in  East  Hampton  and  was  directed  to  supply 
the  churches  of  jMattituck  and  Cutchogue  alternately  un- 
til the  next  stated  meeting.  He  continued  to  supply 
them  for  two  years.  Dec.  28th,  1775,  he  married  the 
widow  of  Mr.  Barker.  He  was  then  twenty-three  years 
of  age,  and  his  wife's  oldest  daughter  was  twenty.  Prime 
tells  us  that  "notwithstanding  the  great  disparity  of  their 
ages"  this  proved  a  happy  marriage.  An  interesting 
sketch  of  Mr.  Davenport's  life  may  be  found  in  Dr. 
Epher  Whitaker's  History  of  Southold,  p.  321.  After 
leaving  Mattituck  and  Cutchogue  he  continued  for  sev- 
eral years  within  the  bounds  of  Suffolk  Presbytery,  and 
then  removed  to  Deerfield,  N.  J.  He  died  at  Lysander, 
N.  Y.,  July  13th,  1821.  Prime  says,  "He  was  one  of  the 
first  ministers  on  the  Island  that  refused  to  administer 
baptism  on  the  indulgent  plan."  Reference  to  his  Record 
Book  confirms  this  statement,  as  his  baptisms  were  few 
and  were  of  children  of  members  in  full  communion. 
Evidently  with  intent  to  supply  a  need  that  this  course 
created  he  kept  a  "Record  of  Births  in  Alattituck  Par- 


Il8  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

ish."  This  was  a  brave  as  well  as  proper  stand  for  Mr. 
Davenport  to  take.  More  than  one  able  minister  on  the 
Island  was  unsettled  because  of  strictness  in  this  matter. 
Today  it  is  well  established  that  the  children  of  such  only 
as  profess  their  faith  in  Christ  and  obedience  to  Him  are 
to  be  baptized. 


CHAPTER  V. 

MATTITUCK  IN    REVOLUTIONARY   TIMES. 

Mr,  Davenport  shepherded  the  flocks  at  Mattituck 
and  Ciitchogue  during  the  first  part  of  the  Revokitionary 
period.  Neither  his  records  nor  the  fragmentary  notes 
following  make  express  reference  to  the  trials  of  those 
days.  But  it  is  a  matter  of  well-known  history  that  all 
the  people  of  Long  Island  were  sorely  pressed  in  those 
terrible  years.  Because  of  the  distractions  and  terrors 
of  the  war-time  there  was  no  meeting  of  the  Suffolk 
Presbytery  from  Oct,  31st,  1775,  to  April  4th,  1784. 
Nothing  could  indicate  more  clearly  than  this  the  dis- 
tressing situation  of  the  ministers*  and  their  suffering 
people,  British  troops  were  encamped  in  Mattituck  on 
the  land  where  the  parsonage  and  athletic  grounds  now 
are,  A  twenty-acre  lot  lying  along  the  highway  from 
the  present  residence  of  Joel  C.  Howell  to  the  Lake  was 
long  known  as  the  "camp  lot."  The  house  across  the 
highway,  the  homestead  of  Deacon  Thomas  Reeve,  was 
used  as  headquarters  for  the  officers.  Many  officers 
were  quartered  in  the  houses  of  the  people.  The  products 
of  the  farms  were  taken  to  supply  the  invading  army. 


*The  name  of  the  Rev.  John  Storrs,  the  pastor  of  Southold, 
appears  in  the  Connecticut  records  as  a  refugee  from  Long 
Island,  and  it  is  probable  that  Mr.  Davenport,  of  Mattituck, 
and  many  others  of  the  ministers,  were  so  outspoken  in  their 
patriotism  that  thej'  were  compelled  to  flee  from  the  Island. 


120  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

If  the  meeting  house  was  not  used  for  barracks  the 
British  were  more  considerate  here  than  in  many  other 
places.  Many  of  the  younger  men  left  the  Island  to 
fight  for  freedom.  Some  patriotic  fathers  removed  their 
families  across  the  Sound  to  Connecticut.  It  was  be- 
cause of  such  removal  of  William  Wells  that  his  son 
John,  the  father  of  Joseph  Wells  of  Laurel,  was  born  in 
Connecticut.  Some,  like  James  Corwin,  the  probable 
builder  of  the  old  Corwin  house  in  Mattituck,  never  re- 
turned. 

Those  who  remained  on  the  Island  were  compelled 
to  swear  allegiance  to  King  George.  Some  did  this  with 
good  grace,  and  some  of  necessity.  To  none  w^as  it  so 
distasteful  as  we  are  disposed  to  imagine.  The  men  of 
that  day  had  all  the  inveterate  respect  and  affection  for 
the  sovereign  that  British  subjects  have  today.  The 
revolution  began  in  protest  against  injustice,  but  with 
loyalty  to  the  king  unimpaired,  and  with  no  thought  of 
ultimate  separation.  Washington,  when  he  took  com- 
mand of  the  continental  army,  desired  to  right  the  wrongs 
of  the  colonies  but  "abhorred  the  idea  of  independence." 
Thomas  Jefferson  was  of  the  same  mind.  Reasonable 
concessions  and  a  conciliatory  spirit  on  the  part  of  the 
king  would  have  ended  the  struggle  before  it  was  well 
begun.  Loyal  subjects  who  asked  for  nothing  but  re- 
dress of  grievances  were  treated  as  rebels,  stern  and  un- 
just oppression  followed,  and  eventually  the  sovereign 
whom  they  loved  was  become  the  tyrant  whom  they 
hated.  Before  things  had  gone  to  such  lengths  the  peo- 
ple of  Long  Island  were  forced  to  make  their  decision, 
for  the  British  forces  were  in  absolute  possession.  Some 
of  the  best  and  most  honorable  men  of  the  Island  were 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK,  121 

thoroughly  loyal  to  the  British  crown  and  were  after- 
wards despised  as  Tories,  and  suffered  the  confiscation 
of  their  estates.  Some  were  on  fire  with  colonial  pa- 
triotism and  could  do  nothing  but  flee  to  parts  not  occu- 
pied by  British  troops.  IMost  were  undecided,  as  most 
of  the  men  at  that  time  in  any  of  the  colonies  would  have 
been  under  similar  circumstances,  and  let  necessity  shape 
their  course.  Their  homes,  their  lands,  their  flocks  and 
herds,  all  their  wealth,  present  and  prospective,  were  on 
the  Island,  and  the  Island  was  wholly  in  the  hands  of 
the  army  of  King  George.  To  flee  w^as  to  leave  all  and 
go  out  empty-handed.  For  the  aged,  the  sick,  those  en- 
cumbered with  dependent  families,  flight  was  impossible. 
The  few  who  had  ready  money  might  flee  with  some 
hope,  young  men  or  unattached  men  might  flee,  but  the 
majority  had  no  choice  but  to  remain  and  give  up  their 
•arms  and  take  the  oath  of  allegiance.  Many  who  had 
fought  in  the  disastrous  battle  of  Long  Island  had  noth- 
ing for  it,  when  once  the  invaders  were  established  in 
the  Island,  but  to  return  to  their  homes  and  families  and 
submit  to  the  inevitable.  There  were  no  other  people  in 
all  the  bounds  of  the  colonies  so  helpless  as  the  Long 
Islanders,  utterly  cut  off  from  their  fellow  Americans. 

And  there  were  no  people  of  the  colonies  who  suffered 
more.  The  farmers  were  required  to  give  large  portions 
of  their  grain  and  other  crops,  and  all  their  hay  and 
straw  to  the  invading  army.  For  these  things  they  were 
supposed  to  receive  receipts,  with  view  to  future  pay- 
ment, but  they  never  were  repaid.  Besides  this,  the  sol- 
diers, with  little  restraint,  committed  continual  outrages 
upon  the  defenseless  people.  A  story  is  handed  down 
of  how   Joanna    (Mapes)    Corwin,.  the   wife   of   Major 


122  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

John  Corwin,  bravely  withstood  a  British  officer  who 
proposed  to  turn  his  horses  into  her  husband's  wheat- 
field.  Such  outrages  were  common.  The  men  were 
made  to  haul,  dig,  build  and  perform  all  manner  of  labor 
for  the  army.  Many  were  abused  and  maltreated,  and 
those  whose  loyalty  was  under  suspicion  were  beaten  and 
sometimes  killed.  Those  whose  loyalty  was  beyond 
question,  such  as  held  commissions  in  the  colonial  militia 
but  had  refused  to  fight  against  the  mother  country,  were 
given  special  protection  papers  in  which  "All  officers,. 
soldiers  or  followers  of  the  army  are  hereby  strictly  for- 
bid to  molest  or  injure"  the  designated  man  or  his  fam- 
ily or  property.  But  if  such  protection  was  required  for 
these,  it  is  readily  understood  that  the  state  of  the  unpro- 
tected was  almost  intolerable.  As  for  those  who  fled 
from  the  Island,  their  farms  were  by  express  order  sub- 
ject to  the  pillage  of  the  soldiers. 

Added  to  the  burden  of  the  insolent  and  rapacious 
British  troops  was  the  misery  inflicted  upon  the  peo- 
ple by  Americans  making  incursions  from  the  Sound. 
The  State  of  Connecticut  commissioned  many  men  as 
captains  of  small  armed  boats  for  service  in  Long  Island 
Sound  and  to  make  predatory  incursions  against  the 
British  in  the  Island.  For  instance,  at  a  meeting  of  the 
Governor's  Council  of  Safety,*  May  22,  1779,  it  was 
yoted,  "That  his  Excellency  the  Governor  be  desired  to 
deliver  to  Colo.  Davenport  three  blank  commissions  to  be 
by  him  filled  up  for  persons  to  go  to  Long  Island  to  take 
and  capture  the  enemies  of  the  united  American  States  r 
Such  persons  as  commissioned  to  give  sufficient  bonds. 


"Records  of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  1776-1780,  Vol.  11.,  p.  346. 


124  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

not  to  plunder  any  of  the  inhabitants  of  said  island  or  to 
exceed  the  instructions  that  may  be  given  them."  It 
will  be  seen  from  this,  as  from  many  similar  indications, 
that  the  people  on  the  main  land  understood  the  position 
of  the  Long  Islanders,  and  regarded  them  as  friends. 
However,  "sundry  and  repeated  complaints"  were  made* 
"that  persons  under  authority  of  commissions  given  to 
armed  boats  to  go  on  shore  on  Long  Island  to  act 
against  the  enemy  .  ,  .  have  unjustly  and  cruelly 
plundered  many  of  the  friendly  inhabitants."  Some  of 
these  complaints  related  to  depredations  in  or  near  Mat- 
tituck,  and  are  of  interest.  A  number  of  the  captains  of 
these  armed  boats  were  Long  Islanders.  Such  was 
Capt.  Peter  Hallock,  a  West  Mattituck  man.  To  him 
and  his  associate,  Jonathan  Solomons  (Salmon)  the  fol- 
lowing letter  was  addressed  by  Governor  Trumbull  if 

"Lebanon,  Augt  nth  1778. 
"Gentn  :  It  being  represented  and  complained  to  me 
that  sundry  persons  belonging  to  your  or  one  of  your 
armed  boats  commissioned  to  cruise  on  the  Sound  have, 
contrary  to  the  tenor  of  your  commission  and  bond,  made 
descents  upon  the  island  of  Long  Island  and  plundered 
the  inhabitants  of  their  stock  and  effects,  and  that  with- 
out distinction,  and  in  particular  have  lately  violently 
taken  about  six  oxen  from  Colo.  Phinehas  Fanning  and 
brought  over  to  this  State — this  conduct  you  must  be 
sensible,  is  unwarrantable  and  renders  you  liable  on  your 
bonds  &c.  I  would,  with  the  advice  of  my  Council,  ad- 
vise you,  or  either  of  you,  so  far  as  you  may  be  respect- 


♦Records  of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  1776-1780,  Vol.  II.,  p.  110. 
tibid.,    Vol.   II.,    p.   no. 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  I25 

ively  concerned  to  settle — compound  the  matter  with 
Colo.  Fanning,  and  restore  him  his  property,  lest  you  be 
exposed  to  further  consequences. 

"I  am,  your  humble  servant,        Jonth  Trumbull." 

Capt.  Peter  Hallock  was  then  about  fifty  years  of  age, 
and  should  have  known  better.  Perhaps  he  held  some 
old  grudge  against  his  neighbor  Col.  Fanning.  Or  per- 
haps it  was  not  Peter  Hallock  at  all,  but  Jonathan  Sal- 
mon who  was  to  blame.  A  similar  letter*  written  the 
week  before  is  of  even  greater  local  interest  in  Matti- 
tuck.  It  recites  that  "Mr.  John  Gardiner,  late  of  South- 
old,  now  of  Norwich,  has  represented  to  me  and  my 
Council  of  Safety,  that  in  an  excursion  made  by  you  upon 
Long  Island  about  three  weeks  ago,  among  a  number  of 
horses  and  cattle  you  took  from  other  people  and  brought 
off,  you  took  a  large  dark-brown  white-faced  two  year 
old  stallion  from  him ;  also  a  white- faced  sorrel  mare 
from  Parnel  Wickham  of  said  Southold,  which  mare 
.was  given  her  by  her  grandfather.  It  being  beyond  the 
limits  of  your  commission  to  go  upon  the  land,  or  any 
orders  received  from  me,  and  said  Gardiner  being  a 
friendly  refugee,  it  is  thought  advisable  you  should  settle 
with  him  and  prevent  trouble.  Also  it  is  said  that  Miss 
Wickham  is  a  friend  and  the  owner  of  said  mare :  that 
being  the  case  you  will  think  it  advisable  to  settle  with 
respect  to  the  mare  likewise." 

The  John  Gardiner  referred  to  was  the  proprietor  of 
Gardiner's  Neck,  the  Indian  Pessepuncke  Neck,  in  Matti- 
tuck.  He  returned  home,  and  dying  in  1795  was  buried 
in  the   Mattituck   churchvard.     His   wife  did   not  lonsr 


♦Records  of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  1776-1780,  VoL  II.,  p.  107. 


126  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

survive  the  trials  of  the  war,  dying  in  1781,  in  her  fifty- 
first  year.  Miss  Parnel  Wickham,  the  owner  of  the 
sorrel  mare  with  the  white  face,  just  one  year  later,  Aug. 
1st,  1779,  became  the  wife  of  James  Reeve,  who  had 
served  as  an  Ensign  in  the  battle  of  Long  Island.  Parnel 
Wickham  was  a  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Abigail  (Par- 
ker) Wickham,  and  lived  in  Cutchogue  at  the  time  of 
the  raid.  She  was  sister  to  Parker,  Joseph,  Thomas, 
John,  and  Daniel  Hull  Wickham,  and  to  Elizabeth  and 
Sarah,  who  ten  years  later  married  Samuel  Reeve,  brother 
of  James.  She  became  the  mother  of  James  W.  and 
Irad  Reeve,  and  has  many  descendants  in  Mattituck. 

The  incursions  from  the  Sound,  raiding  the  farms  of 
Col.  Phineas  Fanning  in  the  west  and  of  John  Gardiner 
and  the  Wickhams  in  the  east,  were  probably  made  from 
Mattituck  Creek,  which  offered  an  admirable  and  se- 
cluded landing  place  for  the  armed'boats.  Judging  from 
these  instances  of  outrage  perpetrated  upon  the  most  in- 
fluential families,  some  notion  can  be  formed  of  the 
hardships  suffered  by  those  who  had  no  influence  suffi- 
cient to  secure  them  redress.  For  most  of  the  people 
the  years  of  the  British  occupation  of  the  Island  must 
have  been  a  time  of  helpless  suffering,  when  they  were 
ground  between  the  upper  and  nether  mill-stones. 

The  refugees  in  Connecticut  suffered,  though  in  a 
different  way.  They  were  not  oppressed  by  the  British  or 
pillaged  by  the  American  soldiers,  but  after  their  little 
store  of  money  was  gone  they  were  in  sore  straits.  It 
appears  that  they  found  no  remunerative  employment  in 
the  Connecticut  towns,  and  the  Connecticut  records  are 
full  of  petitions  from  them  to  be  permitted  to  make  ex- 
cursions to  the  Island  to  secure  stores  and  clothing  from 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  12/ 

their  old  homes,  or  even  to  sell  their  farms  that  they 
might  secure  means  for  the  support  of  their  families  in 
€xile.  It  was  necessary  to  secure  permission  for  these 
excursions,  for  all  communication  between  Long  Island 
and  the  main  land  was  forbidden  by  law.  In  January, 
1780,  the  Connecticut  legislature,  formally  enacting  what 
had  been  for  two  or  three  years  the  policy  pursued  in  be- 
half of  the  refugees,  passed  the  following  :* 

"Whereas  there  is  in  this  State  a  number  of  refugees 
from  Long  Island  who  have  been  drove  out  from  their 
peaceable  habitations  merely  for  their  attachment  to  the 
American  cause,  some  of  which  have  left  their  families, 
others  their  goods  and  efifects,  and  are  greatly  straitened 
for  a  subsistence  here  for  want  of  them,  and  by  the  bonds 
of  humanity  are  in  some  way  and  manner  to  be  relieved, 

"It  is  therefore  resolved  by  this  Assembly,  That  in 
the  recess  of  the  Assembly  his  Excellency  the  Governor 
by  and  with  the  advice  of  the  Council  of  Safety  are 
hereby  authorized  and  impowered  to  hear  the  applica- 
tion of  any  person  or  persons  of  the  aforesaid  character, 
and  to  grant  permission  to  such  person  or  persons  as 
they  may  judge  proper,  to  go  to  Long  Island  and  to 
bring  their  families  and  effects,  under  such  regulations 
and  restrictions  as  they  may  judge  proper:  Always  pro- 
vided that  they  never  give  permission  to  carry  on  any 
kind  of  provision  except  stores  for  the  voyage,  nor  to 
bring  off  any  British  goods  or  merchandise,  nor  to  any 
persons  but  such  as  shall  be  well  recommended  by  the 
civil  authority  in  and  selectmen  of  the  towns  in  which 
such  refufrees  reside." 


♦Records  of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  1776-1780,  Vol.  II.,  p.  464. 


128  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

When  such  permission  was  gained  it  was  availed  of 
at  great  peril,  for  the  refugees  were  in  danger  of  cap- 
ture and  imprisonment  at  the  hands  of  the  British.  The 
mouth  of  Mattituck  Creek  was  often  entered  under  cover 
of  darkness,  and  the  refugees  went  secretly  to  their 
homes  and  their  friends  and  secured  such  clothing  and 
stores  as  they  could  without  coming  under  observation 
of  the  enemy.  It  seems  probable  that  the  secluded  place 
about  "Kidd's  Tree"  was  a  rendezvous  for  these  refugees 
and  their  friends.  This  ancient  tree  or  group  of  trees, 
near  the  beach  and  not  far  from  the  mouth  of  the  creek, 
stands  in  the  midst  of  a  grassy  sanctuary  shut  in  on  all 
sides  by  hills  and  dense  growth  of  lesser  trees  and  bushes 
and  climbing  vines.  Now  a  favorite  picnic  ground  for 
small  parties,  its  natural  beauty  and  enchanting  solitude 
are  enhanced  by  the  immemorial  tradition  that  links  the 
spot  with  the  famous  Captain  Kidd.  Whether  that  inter- 
esting individual  ever  hid  himself  or  his  booty  under  the 
shelter  of  the  tree  that  bears  his  name  is  doubtful,  but 
there  is  little  doubt  that  in  Revolutionary  times  the  place 
afforded  a  somewhat  safe  retreat  for  the  adventurous 
refugees  from  across  the  Sound,  as  well  as  for  the  ma- 
rauding parties  that  came  from  Connecticut  to  harass  the 
British  invaders. 

Even  when  the  refugees  had  successfully  eluded  the 
enemy  and  with  their  stores  gathered  on  the  Island  were 
well  away  and  back  again  in  Connecticut  waters,  they 
sometimes  fell  victims  to  the  rapacity  of  those  who  were 
presumed  to  be  their  friends.  In  May,  1778,  a  memorial 
was  presented  to  the  Connecticut  legislature*  from  "Jona- 


'■Records  of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  1776-1780,  Vol.  II.,  p.  76. 


130  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK, 

than  Havens,  Benjamin  Conklin  and  others,  refugees 
from  Long  Island  now  residing  in  this  State,  showing  that 
they  by  legal  permit  from  the  authority  of  this  State  lately 
brought  from  said  Island  each  a  small  parcell  of  tea,  lin- 
nen  cloath,  woolen  and  other  goods,  for  the  use  of  their 
distressed  families,  to  the  amount  of  what  would  cost 
them,  as  such  goods  are  now  sold,  the  sum  of  about  one 
thousand  pounds,  which  they  received  from  their  friends 
on  said  Island  as  the  avails  of  the  produce  of  their  estates 
sold  upon  said  Island  in  order  to  prevent  the  same  from 
falling  into  the  hands  of  the  enemy;  that  their  said  goods 
and  effects  were  in  a  lawless  manner  taken  from  them 
by  one  Lieut.  White  and  his  associates  belonging  to  the 
continental  frigate  called  the  Trumbull,  and  by  one  Combs 
and  his  associates  commanding  a  whale  boat,  vis. :  at  Say- 
brook  in  the  county  of  New  London,  who  refuse  to  de- 
liver the  same."  Examination  was  made  into  these 
charges,  which  wer.e  found  true,  and  the  Secretary  of 
State  was  directed  to  issue  execution  against  the  offend- 
ing officers  for  the  recovery  of  the  goods,  or  one  thousand 
pounds  as  their  equivalent  in  money,  with  costs. 

In  spite  of  these  perils  communication  between  the 
main  land  and  the  Island  was  continually  kept  up.  When 
there  was  a  raid  on  the  Island  the  refugees  in  the  Con- 
necticut towns  heard  of  it  as  certainly  as  if  there  had 
been  a  submarine  cable,  and  of  other  events  they  also 
had  word.  On  Oct.  28th,  1779,  James  Corwin,  then  resid- 
ing at  Guilford,  was  granted  permission*  to  visit  Long 
Island  upon  a  memorial  "showing  that  his  wives  father 
hath  lately  deceased  at  Southold  on  said  Island  and  left 


♦Records  of  the  btate  of  Connecticut,  1776-1780,  Vol.  II.,  p.  438. 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  I3I 

an  estate  to  his  children,  and  praying  for  hberty  to  go 
over  and  receive  and  bring  off  his  wives  part  of  said 
moveable  estate."  According  to  the  Corwin  Genealogy 
his  wife's  father  was  William  Horton. 

A  week  later,  one  Shipman  was  "permitted  to  go 
to  Long  Island  for  the  purpose  of  marrying  a  wife, 
as  also  to  bring  away  his  wife  with  her  effects,  un- 
der the  direction  of  the  commandant  of  the  fort  at  Say- 
brook." 

An  interesting  case,  throwing  light  upon  the  condi- 
tions of  the  time  is  that  of  Nathaniel  Norton  and  Azariah 
Tuthill,  of  Long  Island.  Their  memorial,*  Jan.,  178®, 
sets  forth  "that  the  said  Norton  sustains  the  office  of  a 
captain  and  said  Tuthill  that  of  an  ensign,  in  the  army 
of  the  United  States;  that  on  their  return  to  said  Guil- 
ford to  their  surprise  they  found  that  their  families  in 
their  absence  had  been  under  the  disagreeable  necessity 
of  going  on  to  Long  Island;  that  the  memorialists  are 
very  destitute  of  cloathing,  and  have  little  or  no  interest 
in  this  State  whereby  they  might  be  supplied  therewith, 
and  are  exceedingly  desirous  to  visit  their  families." 
This  petition  was  of  course  granted.  That  a  captain  and 
lieutenant  of  the  American  army  were  reduced  to  such 
extremities  illustrates  vividly  the  distresses  of  the  unpaid 
soldiers  and  the  hardships  suffered  by  their  families. 
Such  instances  help  us  to  realize  the  great  price  paid  by 
the  patriots  for  our  liberties. 

In  1780  the  British  forces,  greatly  needed  elsewhere, 
were  withdrawn  from  eastern  Long  Island,  and  many  of 
the  refugees  returned.    The  petition  of  Silas  Halsey,  in 


•Records  of  Connecticut,  1776-1780,  Vol.  II.,  p.  489. 


132  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

April,  1780,  for  permission  to  return  to  his  home  in 
Southampton,  recites*  that  the  enemy  had  "withdrawn 
from  that  part  of  the  island  and  left  them  in  the  peace- 
able enjoyment  of  their  estates."  In  Marchf  of  that  year 
"John  Wells  and  Timo.  Welles  his  son  in  law,  residing 
at  Preston,  refugees  from  Long  Island,"  obtained  per- 
mission to  pass  over  to  Long  Island  to  see  after  and  take 
ofif  their  considerable  effects  left  there  about  three  years 
since  and  of  which  they  have  not  heard ;  .  .  .  they 
being  well  recommended  by  the  authority  and  selectmen 
of  Preston."  This  John  Wells  was  the  third  son  of  2d 
Joshua,  and  therefore  a  great-grandson  of  ist  William. 
His  "considerable"  estate  consisted  of  Poole's  Neck  in 
Cutchogue,  about  300  acres.  Timothy  was  his  nephew 
as  well  as  his  son-in-law,  having  married  John's  daugh- 
ter Alary,  a  cousin.  Timothy  and  Mary  w-ere  great- 
grandparents  of  John  C.  Wells  of  Mattituck. 

The  visit  of  the  Wellses  to  Cutchogue  in  March  con- 
vinced them  that  final  return  was  safe,  and  the  next 
month,  April,  1780,  they  gained  permission  to  remove 
to  the  old  home,  "where,"  they  say,  "they  have  a  consid- 
erable estate  in  lands,"  adding,  "that  they  have  expended 
the  greater  part  of  their  moveable  estate  for  their  sup- 
port since  their  residence  in  this  State,  and  are  now  re- 
duced to  indigence  and  want ;  praying  that  they  may  have 
liberty  to  return  to  their  farm  on  Long  Island  with  their 
moveable  estate,  with  a  sufficient  quantity  of  provision  to 
support  their  families  until  wheat  harvest,  with  one  cow% 
one  horse  and  two  swine  for  each  of  the  memorialists." 
The  British  soldiers  had  been  unable  to  carrv  awav  with 


♦Records  of  Connecticut,  1776-1780,  Vol.  II.,  p.  538. 
tibid.,  Vol.  II.,  p.  512. 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  1 33 

them  the  "considerable  estate  in  lands,"  and  the  house 
was  still  standing,  but  the  great  flocks  and  herds  that 
the  owner  must  have  possessed  when  he  fled  from  the 
Island  were  gone,  so  that  it  was  necessary  to  begin  over 
again  with  a  few  animals  carried  across  the  Sound  in  a 
sloop.  John  \\'ells  prospered,  however,  and  a  few  years 
later  he  was  able  to  purchase  the  adjoining  Pequash 
Neck  from  his  cousin  James,  the  son  of  the  4th  William, 
and  brother  of  William  the  grandfather  of  Joseph  Wells, 
of  Laurel.  Dying  in  1797,  he  left  the  Pequash  Xeck  to 
his  daughter  Abigail,  the  wife  of  Joseph  Hull  Goldsmith, 
and  Poole's  Xeck  to  his  daughters,  Hannah  Wells,  and 
Sarah  Fleet,  the  wife  of  John  and  afterwards  of  Rens- 
selaer Fleet.  Hannah  sold  her  half  to  Sarah,  and  the 
whole  neck  has  since  remained  in  possession  of  the  Fleet 
family. 

Not  all  of  the  returned  refugees  were  able  to  rehabili- 
tate their  shattered  fortunes.  It  was  probably  the  losses 
of  the  war-time  that  pressed  James  Wells  to  part  with 
the  Pequash  Neck.  The  records  of  mortgages  for  the 
years  immediately  following  the  war  show  that  many 
men  who  had  been  wealthy  were  forced  to  borrow  money 
on  their  lands.  Among  these  were  John  Gardiner,  Capt. 
Peter  Hallock,  Jonathan  Osman,  Obadiah  Hudson,  Par- 
shall  Howell  and  the  Corwins.  Most  of  these  men  were 
unable  to  weather  the  storm  and  lost  everything.  Many 
fine  properties  that  had  been  handed  down  from  father 
to  son  for  more  than  a  hundred  years  passed  to  other 
families. 

While  the  refugees  w^ere  frequently  visiting  the  Island, 
the  people  remaining  on  the  Island  had  occasion  to  visit 
the  main  land,  and  this  intercourse  was  carried  on  under 


134  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

strict  regulation  by  the  British  authorities,  just  as  that 
from  the  other  side  of  the  Sound  was  regulated  by  the 
State  of  Connecticut.  The  accompanying  illustration, 
photographed  from  an  original  paper  in  the  possession 
of  N.  Hubbard  Cleveland,  of  Southold,  exhibits  the  form 
of  permission  required  in  such  cases.  This  particular 
permit,  issued  in  April,  1780,  about  the  time  of  the  with- 
drawal of. the  invaders  from  eastern  Long  Island,  is  No. 
II.  This  probably  means  No.  11  of  the  year  1780,  for 
there  must  have  been  many  more  than  eleven  permits 
issued  in  all  the  years  of  the  occupation.  Probably  many 
expeditions  from  the  Island  were  made  surreptitiously, 
without  permits. 

On  the  back  of  the  permit  illustrated  is  written  the 
following:  "No.  11.  7  April  80.  Flag  of  Truce  to  San- 
ford  in  Connecticut  to  fetch  Miss  Hubbard  and  Mrs. 
Aspinwalls  Effects  to  Long  Island.  Passes  No.  235,236." 
The  numbers  of  the  passes  give  a  better  idea  than  the 
number  of  the  permit  of  the  frequency  of  authorized 
communication  with  the  main  land. 

Accompanying  the  permit,  among  the  papers  in  Mr. 
Cleveland's  possession,  is  a  letter,  recommending  its  issu- 
ance, from  David  Mathews,  the  Tory  Mayor  of  New 
York  City,  to  Captain  Adye,  Aid-de-Camp  to  the  Com- 
mandant, stationed  at  the  office  of  Police.  It  is  as  fol- 
lows : 

No.  II. 
Sir 

We  beg  leave  to  recommend  Mr.  Isaac  Hubbard  to 

the  Commandant  for  a  Flag  to  proceed  to  Stanford  in 

Connecticut  in  order  to  bring  from  thence  a  Sister  of 

his  who  he  wishes  to  have  here,  as  he  is  in  a  Situatior> 


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By  Command  of  the  GENERjil,, 


To  all  whom  it  may  concern. 


BRITISH  PERMIT  FOR  FLAG  OF  TRUCE. 

From   original    in   possession  of   N.    Hu)jbard   Cleveland, 

of  Southold. 


136  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

to  support  her,  and  her  Situation  at  present  is  rather  dis- 
agreeable as  being  among  Rebells. 

We  are 
Sir 

Your  most  obedt. 
Office  of  Pohce  Humbl  Servts 

5th  April  1780 

Mathews 
Captain  Adye.  Mayor, 

It  is  easily  understood  that  the  statement  as  to  Miss 
Hubbard's  situation  being  "rather  disagreeable  as  being 
among  Rebells"  was  the  natural  explanation  of  Mayor 
Mathews,  and  not  necessarily  the  feeling  of  the  Hub- 
bards.  On  the  back  of  Mathews'  letter  is  written  a  list 
of  the  articles  which  "Mr.  Hubbard  requests  permission 
to  take  with  him."  These  are,  "50  lb.  sugar,  i  Bushell 
Salt,  I  Loaf  Sugar,  10  yds.  Callico,  i  Linnen,  12  yds. 
Cambrick  and  Gauze,  6  lb.  Tea,  6  lb.  Chocolate,  1000 
Needles,  i  pack  Pins,  i  lb.  pepper,  i  lb.  Alspice,  23/2  yd. 
Broad  Cloath,  i  Dozn.  Knives  and  Forks,  i  sett  Cups 
and  Saucers,  ^  Spices,  20  lb.  Coffee."  This  list  is 
marked  "No.  236,"  the  number  of  the  second  pass.  This 
was  evidently  for  the  inspection  of  the  British  officers. 
The  "flag  of  truce"  was  also  most  probably  for  their 
benefit,  for  it  is  not  likely  that  peaceable  Long  Islanders 
needed  a  flag  of  truce  from  the  British  authorities  to  pro- 
tect them  on  the  Connecticut  shore.  Neither  is  anything 
said  in  the  Connecticut  Records  about  flags  of  truce  for 
parties  visiting  Long  Island,  although  minute  regula- 
tions are  set  down  concerning  their  expeditions.  Sched- 
ules of  articles  to  be  carried,  either  going  or  returning. 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 


137 


were  required  by  the  Connecticut  authorities  as  well  as 
bv  the  British. 


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LETTER   FROM    MAYOR   DAVID   MATHEWS 

Recommending  Isaac  Hubbard  for  a  Flag-  of  Truce. 

(From  original  in  possession  of  N.  Hubbard  Cleveland.) 

Pass  No.  235,  also  in  Mr.  Cleveland's  possession  on  a 
separate  paper,  is  for  articles  to  be  carried  to  Mrs.  Chap- 


138  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

man  and  Mr.  Hurd  in  Connecticut.  It  is  here  copied  as 
of  interest  in  showing  the  needs  of  the  ladies  of  those 
times,  and  the  fabrics  then  in  vogue : 

Pass  No.  235.  "Articles  for  Mrs.  Chapman :  3  yds. 
black  mode,  2  yds.  white  Cause,  2  yds.  white  Catgut,  2 
pair  black  mitts,  7  yds.  Ribbon,  2  Bonnet  papers,  Yz  Dozn 
Stay  Laces,  ^  doz.  Skeleton  Wires,  2  Doz.  large  hair 
pins,  I  Bonnet  pin  and  3  pounds  of  Tea.  Articles  for 
Mr.  Andrew  Hurd :  14  yds.  Callico,  9^  yds.  Camblet,  i 
pair  Silk  mitts,  2  yds.  Cause,  2  yds.  Millinet,  6  yds.  Rib- 
bon, 3  yds  and  a  ^  of  White  Peling,  2  yds.  durant,  9  yds. 
Blond  Lace,  %  yd.  Persian,  and  i  pair  of  Shoes."  This 
schedule,  before  it  was  marked  with  the  pass  number, 
was  sent  to  the  Commandant  in  New  York  with  this  note  r 

Mr.  Van  dyck  begs  leave  to  ask  the  honor  of  present- 
ing his  most  dutiful  respects  to  Major  General  Pattison 
and  begs  the  favor  of  his  kind  permission  to  send  the 
articles  mentioned  in  the  within  memorandum  to  Mr. 
Andrew  Hurd  and  Mrs.  Chapman  both  of  Stratford  in 
Connecticut  known  friends  to  his  Majesty's  Person  and 
Government  by  Mrs.  Aspinwall  who  is  going  in  a  Flag 
to  the  Colony  of  Connecticut. 

New  York  April  5th  1780 

Major  General  Pattison. 

These  interesting  papers  relating  to  Permit  No.  ir 
and  Passes  235  and  236  were  handed  down  in  the  Hub- 
bard family  of  Mattituck.  Isaac  Hubbard,  whose  sister 
was  to  be  brought  from  Connecticut,  and  William  Hub- 
bard were  undoubtedly  therefore  of  the  Mattituck  Hub- 
bards,  though  the  author  cannot  place  them  with  cer- 
tainty.    William  and  Isaac  are  common  names  in  the 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  I39 

family.  The  Leake  whose  first  name  is  lost  from  the  old 
document  was  in  all  likelihood  a  Mattituck  man.  Philip 
Leek  was  a  member  of  the  Mattituck  Church  in  1753. 
Strangely  enough  the  Permit  is  not  signed  and  sealed, 
though  it  was  prepared  for  signature,  "Given  under  my 
Hand  and  Seal,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  the  Seventh 
Day  of  April  in  the  Year  of  our  Lord  One  Thousand, 
Seven  Hundred  and  Eighty."  It  must  have  been  deliv- 
ered, however,  with  the  passes,  to  the  interested  parties. 
This  was  a  singular  oversight,  and  there  is  no  record  to 
tell  whether  the  lack  of  the  official  seal  interfered  with 
the  safe-conduct  of  Mrs,  Aspinwall  and  Miss  Hubbard. 
One  of  the  Hubbards  at  least  got  safely  back  to  Matti- 
tuck with  the  papers. 

All  this  illustrates  the  great  inconvenience  of  living 
on  eastern  Long  Island  in  Revolutionary  days,  when  au- 
thority for  all  important  transactions  had  to  be  secured 
from  the  British  officials  in  New  York,  at  great  expense 
of  time  and  money.  Although  there  was  a  Surrogate's 
Court  in  Suffolk  County,  all  Long  Island  wills  were  re- 
quired to  be  recorded  in  New  York,  After  being  proved 
before  the  surrogate  these  wills  must  needs  be  "approved 
and  allowed  and  sealed  at  Fort  George  in  the  City  of 
New  York  by  His  Excellency  James  Robertson  Esquire, 
Captain  General  and  Governor  in  Chief  in  and  over  the 
Province  of  New  York,  and  the  Territories  depending 
thereon  in  America,  Chancellor  and  Vice  Admiral  of  the 
same,  and  Lieutenant  General  of  His  Majesty's  Forces,'^ 
Six  years  and  more  after  the  adoption  of  the  State  Con- 
stitution the  people  of  Long  Island  had  to  submit  to  this, 
and  it  was  not  until  the  British  evacuated  New  York, 
Nov.  25th,  1783,  that  they  were  free  like  their  brethren 


140  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

in  the  upper  part  of  the  State.  Then  their  wills  needed 
no  approval  or  sealing  but  of  the  vSurrogate  of  the  County 
of  Suffolk  in  the  State  of  New  York,  "by  the  Grace  of 
God  Free  and  Independent."  In  1761  the  costs  of  prov- 
ing and  recording  a  will  in  New  York  were  something 
over  £3.  In  1783  the  costs  had  largely  increased.  In 
February  of  that  year  the  costs  for  proving  and  recording 
the  will  of  Joseph  Mapes,  of  Mapes'  Neck,  were  £5,  los. 
At  that  time  five  pounds  was  a  great  deal  of  money,  and 
it  is  no  wonder  that  many  wills  were  left  unrecorded. 

Notwithstanding  the  peculiar  expenses,  inconve- 
niences, indignities  and  sufferings  of  the  people  of  Long 
Island,  they  had  a  heavy  tax  laid  upon  them  by  the  State 
Legislature,  in  1784,  amounting  to  £37,000,  because  of 
their  failure  to  bear  a  share  in  the  expenses  of  the  war. 
This  tax  was  light  in  comparison  with  that  already  ex- 
acted from  the  unfortunate  Islanders  by  the  British.  To 
add  this  to  that  was  an  act  of  cruel  injustice. 

In  the  war,  for  the  reasons  already  given,  there  were 
no  Long  Island  troops  in  service  after  the  battle  of  Long 
Island,  in  August,  1776.  In  that  battle  Col.  Josiah 
Smith's  regiment  of  Minute  Men  was  engaged.  In  this 
regiment  were  two  Southold  companies,  the  first  com- 
manded by  Capt.  John  Bayly,  and  the  second  by  Capt. 
Paul  Reeve.  Under  Capt.  Bayly  were  ist  Lieut.  Joshua 
Youngs,  2d  Lieut.  John  Tuthill,  and  Ensign  James  Reeve. 
Under  Capt.  Paul  Reeve  were  ist  Lieut.  John  Corwin, 
2d  Lieut.  David  Horton,  and  Ensign  Nathaniel  Hudson. 
The  1st  Major  of  the  regiment  was  Isaac  Reeve,  of 
Franklinville,  son  of  3d  James  Reeve,  of  Mattituck.  En- 
sign James  Reeve  was  Major  Isaac's  nephew,  son  of  4th 
James,  who  held  a  captain's  commission  under  the  Colo- 


142  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

nial  Government.  Lieut.  John  Corwin  was  a  Mattituck 
man,  afterwards  Major  Corwin.  His  seven  daughters 
married  Asaph  Young,  John  Hubbard,  John  Clark,  John 
Wells,  Simeon  Conklin,  Benjamin  Reeve  and  Isaiah  Ben- 
jamin, and  their  descendants  are  many  in  Mattituck  and 
elsewhere.  Ensign  Nathaniel  Hudson  was  a  Mattituck 
or  Franklinville  man.  Lieut.  David  Horton  was  a  Cutch- 
ogue  man,  son  of  Major  Silas  and  Bethiah  (Terrill)  Hor- 
ton. His  mother  was  a  Mattituck  woman.  It  is  difficult 
to  say  to  what  branch  of  the  Reeve  family  Capt.  Paul 
belonged.    He  was  a  member  of  the  Aquebogue  Church. 

The  first  Southold  company  was  composed  of  men 
chiefly  from  the  eastern  part  of  the  town.  Capt.  Paul 
Reeve's  company  was  made  up  of  men  belonging  to  Mat- 
tituck and  near  villages.  A  complete  roster  of  this  com- 
pany, from  papers  handed  down  in  the  family  of  Col. 
Smith,  is  given,  with  others,  by  Mr.  Wm.  S.  Pelletreau 
in  Vol.  11.  of  the  recently  published  History  of  Long 
Island,  p.  572.  With  Mr.  Pelletreau's  permission  this  is 
partly  copied  here,  as  of  great  interest  to  the  people  of 
Mattituck  and  vicinity,  whose  ancestors  are  described. 

A  Muster  Role  of  Capt.  Paul  Reeve's  Company, 
Southold,  Augst  5th  1776. 

Paul  Reeve,  Captain,  statture  5  feet  8  inches;  com- 
plection,  dark ;  age,  42 ;  acutriments  compleat. 

John  Corwin,  Lieutenant,  5  ft.  9  in.,  light,  age  41. 

Joshua  Benjamin,  Lieutenant,  5  ft.  9  in.,  light,  age  28. 

Whelock  Booth,  Sergeant,  5  ft.  6  in.,  dark,  age  34. 

Nath'l  Conkling,  Sergeant,  5  ft.  10  in.,  dark,  age  36. 

Steers  Hubbard,  Sergeant,  5  ft.  8  in.,  dark,  age  23. 

Jonathan  Sollomon  [Salmon],  Corporal,  5  ft.  10  in., 
dark,  age  33. 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  I43 

Constant  Haven,  Corporal,  5  ft.  10  in.,  dark,  age  45. 

Joshua  Well,  Corporal,  5  ft.  10,  age  34. 

James  Pershall,  Drummer,  5  ft.  7,  dark,  age  22. 

John  Fradrik  Hudson,  Fifer,  5  ft.  9,  dark,  age  20. 

Nathl,  Overton,  6  ft.,  dark,  age  24. 

John  Goldsmith,  5  ft.  7,  dark,  age  29. 

Gilbert  King,  5  ft.  6,  light,  age  18. 

John  Goldsmith,  Jr.,  5  ft.  i,  dark,  age  19. 

Joel  Overton,  6  ft.,  dark,  age  21. 

Richard  Drake,  5  ft.  10,  light,  age  19. 

Stephen  Halsey,  5  ft.  7,  dark,  age  19. 

Joseph  Clea viand,  5  ft.  7,  dark,  age  17. 

Ishmel  Reeve,  5  ft.  11,  light,  age  2^. 

Ichobod  Case,  5  ft.  8,  light,  age  24. 

Elijah  Terry,  5  ft.  8,  dark,  age  19. 

Calvin  Horton,  5  ft.  10,  light,  age  20. 

David  Benjamin,  5  ft.,  light,  age  17. 

Luther  Reeve,  5  ft.  7,  dark,  age  17. 

John  Calvin  Wells,  5  ft.  4,  dark,  age  16. 

George  Taylor,  5  ft.  4,  light,  age  48. 

James  Reeve,  5  ft.  6,  dark,  age  24. 

Joshua  Corwin,  5  ft.  8,  dark,  age  42. 

John  Griffing,  5  ft.  7,  light,  age  38. 

Joshua  Wells,  Jr.,  5  ft.,  dark,  age  16. 

Peter  Downs,  5  ft.  5,  dark,  age  47. 

Jeremiah  Corwin,  5  ft.  4,  dark,  age  41. 

Isaac  \\'ells,  6  ft.,  dark,  age  30. 

Joshua  Aldrige,  5  ft.  9,  dark,  age  25. 

Peter  Hallock,  5  ft.  10,  dark,  age  22. 

Nathan  Corwin,  5  ft.  8,  light,  age  2y. 

Thomas  Corwin,  5  ft.  10,  light,  age  22, 

Xathan  Youngs,  5  ft.  10,  dark,  age  22. 


144  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK, 

Nathan  Corwin,  Jr.,  5  ft.,  dark,  age  16. 

Samuel  Hudson,  5  ft.  10,  dark,  age  37. 

Richard  Benjamin,  5  ft.  4,  light,  age  18. 

John  Hallock,  5  ft.  6,  light,  age  23. 

Jonathan  Reeve,  5  ft.  8,  dark,  age  32. 

Ruben  Brown,  5  ft.  10,  light,  age  39. 

John  Terry,  5  ft.  9,  light,  age  22. 

Nathan  Benjamin,  6  ft.,  dark,  age  17. 

Ebenezer  Hudson,  5  ft.  3,  light,  age  17. 

John  Tuthill,  5  ft.  6,  dark,  age  46. 

Richard  Wood,  5  ft.  7,  dark,  age  36. 

Richard  Hallock,  5  ft.  5,  dark,  age  17. 

Amaziah  Benjamin,  5  ft.  3,  dark,  age  35. 

Richard  Brown,  5  ft.  11,  dark,  age  2t,. 

David  Brown,  5  ft.  8,  dark,  age  29, 

William  Reeve,  5  ft.  8,  light,  age  21. 

Nathl.  Fanning,  5  ft.  11,  light,  age  21. 

Amasa  Pike,  5  ft.  5,  dark,  age  17. 

Daniel  Terry,  5  ft.  8,  dark,  age  19. 

John  Pershall,  5  ft.  8,  dark,  age  19. 

James  Detty,  Jr.,  5  ft.  11,  light,  age  24. 

All  these  fifty-seven  men  had  "acutriments  compleat." 
With  the  rest  of  Col.  Smith's  regiment  they  marched  to 
Brooklyn  before  the  middle  of  August,  1776,  reaching 
there  the  14th.  They  were  in  camp  until  the  22nd,  when 
skirmishing  with  the  enemy  began.  Fighting  continued 
every  day,  especially  the  27th  and  28th,  until  they  were 
ordered  to  cross  to  New  York  on  the  29th,  when  by  his 
successful  retreat  Washington  saved  his  army,  though  he 
lost  the  battle.  The  Long  Island  regiment  then  dis- 
banded. Some  of  the  men  returned  to  their  homes,  while 
some  enlisted  in  other  resfiments.     The  names  of  manv 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  I45 

Long  Island  men  appear  in  regiments  of  Regulars,  and 
many  that  are  probably  Mattituck  men.  But  in  those 
days  few  men  had  middle  names,  and  they  cannot  be 
distinguished  with  certainty  in  long  lists  of  names  with- 
out residences.  Occasionally  an  unusual  name,  such  as 
Phineas  Mapes,  of  the  ist  New  York  Regulars,  marks 
one  as  a  Mattituck  man  without  doubt.  All  the  well- 
known  Mattituck  names  are  scattered  through  the  regi- 
ments of  New  York  regulars,  and  certainly  many  of  them 
served  with  the  Connecticut  troops.  One  of  these  was 
John  Clark,  2d,*  of  Franklinville,  who  served  as  a  pri- 
vate and  who  was  a  pensioner  of  the  State  of  Connecti- 
cut, and  afterwards  of  the  United  States. 

It  is  an  interesting  fact  that  the  Town  Meetings  were 
held  in  Mattituck  for  five  years  following  the  battle  of 
Long  Island,  from  1777  to  1781.  In  the  records  of  the 
meetings  there  is  no  clue  given  to  the  reason  for  this, 
and  there  is  not  even  a  traditional  reason,  for  the  fact 
seems  to  have  passed  from  the  public  memory.  In  all 
probability  the  British  authorities  designated  the  place 
for  the  meeting,  for  such  affairs  were  under  their  abso- 
lute control.  In  Mattituck  they  occupied  a  twenty-acre 
camp  lot,  and  perhaps  Mattituck,  as  being  more  central 
than  Southold,  was  headquarters  for  the  troops  in  South- 
old  Town.  If  so,  the  Town  Meeting  was  required  to  be 
held  where  it  would  be  under  the  inspection  and  re- 
straint of  the  commanding  officer.  Certainly  no  business 
was  transacted  at  these  meetings  that  might  not  have 


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Mrs.  George  E.  Post,  of  the  Clark  House  in  Greenport.  His  wife 
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148  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

been  done  in  the  hearing  of  His  Excellency  the  Captain 
General  and  Governor  in  Chief  himself.  The  minutes  of 
the  first  Town  Meeting  in  Mattituck  are  recorded  in 
Liber  D  of  the  Town  Records,  p.  30,  and  are  copied 
again  at  p.  136.    They  read  : 

April  the  i,  1777  att  a  publick  Town  meeting  held  att 
Mattituck  In  order  to  chose  Town  officers  and  other 
things  necessarie  first  Major  Wickham  was  chosen  Mod- 
erator and  Robert  Hempsted  dark,  [Robert  Hempsted 
was  the  official  Town  Clerk.] 

Second  as  the  meeting  hath  not  bin  ussally  held  att 
this  place  itt  is  voted  and  concluded  and  agreed  that 
what  was  voted  shood  be  held  good. 

third  Capt  Christopher  Youngs  Decon  Thomas  Reeve 
and  John  Halliok  was  chosen  to  make  a  Return  of  votes 
and  Two  of  them  agreeing  the  votes  to  be  entered. 

foorth  Jonathan  Tuthill,  Wheelock  Booth,  Ishmell 
Reeves,  Nathanael  Conkling,  Ezekiel  Petty  Jun.,  Rich- 
ard Wood  ware  chosen  Constables  for  the  ensuing  year. 

fifth  Azriah  Tothill,  Simon  Moore,  Decon  Thomas 
Reeves,  Daniel  Howell,  Overseere  for  the  poor. 

6  Assesors,  Robert  Hempsted,  Daniel  Wells  Esq. 

7  Parker  Wickham  Esq.  Supervisor. 

8  James  Brown,  William  Horton  Sen.,  Samll  Cox^ 
Jeremiah  Wells  and  William  Dickerson,  Overseers  for 
the  High  Ways. 

9  fence  viewers  and  prisers  of  Damage,  Jonathan 
Tuthill,  Christopher  Brown,  Joseph  Horton,  Simon 
Moore,  Samll  Cox,'  Silas  Moore,  John  Corwin  Junr. 
David  Gardiner  Junr.  Diah  Corwin,  Stephen  Aldrich, 
Nathanael  Hudson,  Manly  Wells,  John  Tuthill,  Isaiah 
Terry. 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  I49 

ID.  Colector,  Ezekiel  Petty  Junr. 

11.  Allso  voted  yt  fr  the  futer  the  Town  Meeting 
shall  be  held  at  Mattituck. 

12.  Also  voted  that  no  Cattle  shall  be  allowed  to 
Rom  at  Large  on  the  beach  from  the  Duck  pond  to  the 
Waideing  River  withoote  being  deemed  transgressors 
and  ye  owners  Liable  to  pay  Damage. 


CHAPTER  VI. 

PARISH  HISTORY  FROM  REVOLUTIONARY  TIMES 
TO    1845. 

In  1764,  after  Mr.  Barker  relinquished  the  care  of 
the  Aquebogue  church  and  devoted  all  his  time  to  Matti- 
tuck,  the  Rev.  Benjamin  Goldsmith  took  charge  of  the 
flock  in  Aquebogue.  He  was  a  son  of  3rd  John  Gold- 
smith. His  sister,  Hannah,  married  5th  William  Wells, 
and  Joseph  Wells  of  Laurel  is  her  grandson.  From  the 
time  of  Mr.  Davenport's  departure  from  Mattituck,  in 
1776,  Mr.  Goldsmith  often  preached  in  Mattituck,  and 
from  his  Record  Book  it  appears  that  he  attended  to  the 
marriages  and  baptisms  of  the  Mattituck  parish.  In  the 
midst  of  his  journal,  May  18,  1788,  he  writes,  "From 
this  time  I  take  in  Mattituck  Parish."  From  that  time 
onward  until  his  death,  in  1810,  he  preached  alternately 
in  the  two  churches,  exercised  full  pastoral  charge  of 
both,  and  the  parishes  were  again  united,  as  they  had 
been  under  the  care  of  Messrs.  Darby,  Park  and  Barker. 
This  union  continued  until  1817,  when  it  was  made  even 
closer  by  the  joining  of  the  two  in  one  legally  incorpo- 
rated body  known  for  nearly  forty  years  thereafter  as 
"Union  Parish."  But  they  were  separate  and  distinct 
churches  all  the  years  of  Mr.  Goldsmith's  life,  and  on 
April  8th,  1799,  the  Mattituck  congregation  met  "to  ap- 
point Trustees  who  shall  be  a  Body  Corporate"  under  the 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  I5I 

Act  of  Legislature  of  April  6th,  1784,  providing  for  the 
incorporation  of  religious  societies.  "Mattituck  Society". 
was  the  corporate  title  chosen,  and  John  Corwin,  Elder, 
and  James  Reeve,  Deacon,  were  chosen  to  sign  the  certi- 
ficate of  the  action.  This  certificate  was  duly  recorded 
July  26th,  1799,  on  p.  16  of  Liber  A  of  Certificates  of 
Religious  Incorporations.  The  first  Trustees  of  Matti- 
tuck  Society  were  William  Wells,  John  Hubbard,  and 
James  Reeve,  Esq.  The  Cutchogue  Church  was  incor- 
porated two  years  later,  and  its  certificate  is  recorded 
on  p.  17  of  Liber  A  of  Certificates  of  Religious  Incor- 
porations. 

Shortly  after  Mr.  Goldsmith  began  ministering  to 
both  churches  they  were  blessed  with  a  precious  revival. 
In  the  year  1790,  thirty-six  persons,  partly  in  Mattituck 
and  partly  in  Aquebogue,  were  received  to  full  com- 
munion. Among  these  were  Capt.  James  Reeve  (then 
thirty-four  years  of  age,  the  great-grandson  of  the  donor 
of  the  church  site),  and  Jonathan  Horton,  both  of  whom 
were  chosen  deacons  the  same  year.  Of  the  thirty-six 
brought  into  the  communion  at  that  time  more  than  half 
were  men. 

Almost  every  year  of  Mr.  Goldsmith's  ministry 
saw  some  additions  to  the  roll  of  communicants, 
and  in  1809,  the  year  before  his  death,  his  ministry  was 
blessed  with  another  season  of  refreshing,  when  twenty- 
two  persons  were  received  into  fellowship.  During  the 
forty-five  years  of  his  ministry  Mr.  Goldsmith  baptized 
nearly  eight  hundred  persons,  most  of  them  children,  and 
he  united  three  hundred  and  eighty-three  couples  in 
marriage. 

Near    the    eastern    end    of    the    Jamesport    burying- 


152  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

ground,  a  few  feet  from  the  highway,  stands  a  stone  with 
the  following  inscription : 

In  Memory  of 

Rev.  Benjamin  Goldsmith, 

Born  at  Southold, 

Educated  at  Yale  College, 

45  Years  Pastor  of  the  Churches  at 

Aquebogue  and  Mattituck, 

Who  died  Nov.  19,  1810,  Ae.  74  ys.  and  14  ds. 

I  am  the  resurrection  and  the  life. 

In  that  grave  lies  a  man  whose  influence  upon  the 
people  among  whom  he  lived  is  beyond  measuring.  A 
native  of  this  town,  beloved  and  respected  by  the  people, 
simple  and  unassuming  in  his  ways,  but  withal  strong 
and  determined,  sound  in  his  doctrine  and  pious  in  his 
life,  plain  and  practical  in  his  preaching,  judicious  in  the 
conduct  of  parish  affairs,  he  left  a  blessed  impress  upon 
two  generations. 

The  house  in  which  Mr.  Goldsmith  resided  stood  un- 
til five  or  six  years  ago,  when,  for  want  of  care  and 
timely  repair,  being  sadly  dilapidated,  it  was  torn  down, 
and  a  modern  dwelling  was  erected  on  its  site.  It  stood 
on  the  north  side  of  the  highway,  a  half-mile  east  of 
the  Jamesport  church,  and  directly  across  from  the  sixth 
milestone  from  the  County  Court  House.  It  was  ap- 
parently one  of  the  oldest  houses  in  the  town,  and  was 
a  fine  large  dwelling  in  its  day,  with  two  full  stories 
and  an  attic  and  an  extension  on  the  west  side.  It  had  a 
solid   oak   frame,  and   the   doors   within   were  provided 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  1 53 

■with  the  old-fashioned  latch-string.  The  window  over 
the  front  door,  with  fifteen  little  panes  of  glass,  was  the 
one  window  in  the  small  room  that  is  said  to  have  been 
Mr.  Goldsmith's  study.  This  study  was  about  six  feet 
by  eight,  with  a  brick  fireplace  opposite  the  window. 
On  the  walls  about  the  room,  when  the  house  was  torn 
down,  were  the  marks  of  the  shelves  on  which  the  old 
pastor's  books  used  to  stand.  A  little  study  it  was,  but 
big  enough  for  the  man  of  God  to  kneel  in  prayer,  or 
sit  in  meditation  and  study.  From  that  sacred  place  he 
came  forth  to  bless  the  people. 

Mr.  Goldsmith  was  twice  married,  and  left  several 
sons  and  daughters.  His  daughter  Amelia  married 
James  Hallock,  and  their  son  Benjamin  Goldsmith  Hal- 
lock  was  the  father  of  the  late  James  Richard  Hallock, 
and  of  Mrs  Fannie  C.  Dayton,  and  of  Mrs.  Josephine  A. 
Halsey  of  Westhampton.  A  sister  of  Benjamin  Gold- 
smith Hallock,  Helen,  became  the  wife  of  the  late  Allen 
Cox,  and  the  mother  of  Mrs.  Alexander  Forman,  of 
Brooklyn  and  Mattituck.  Mr.  Goldsmith's  son  Benjamin 
lived  and  died  in  Mattituck,  owning  the  large  farm  that 
had  long  been  in  the  Howell  family,  known  as  Howell's 
Neck,  much  of  which  came  later  into  possession  of  Syl- 
vester Cooper,  and  now  constitutes  several  comfortable 
farms. 

Benjamin  Goldsmith,  Jr.,  was  thrice  married.  By 
Tiis  second  wife,  Phebe,  the  daughter  of  Major  Isaac 
Reeve,  he  had  a  daughter  Phebe  who  became  the  wife  of 
James  Wickham  Reeve.  Their  daughter  Anna  married 
the  late  Andrew  Gildersleeve  whose  sons  and  daughters 
are  among  the  descendants  in  Mattituck  of  the  Rev,  Ben- 
jamin Goldsmith. 


154  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

One  of  the  interesting  old  parish  documents  still 
preserved  dates  from  Mr.  Goldsmith's  day: 

Mattituck,  April  17th,  1809. 

"Met  at  Mr.  John  Hubbard's  [the  Mattituck  House] 
in  pursuance  of  public  notice  for  the  purpose  of  making 
board  fence  around  the  burying  ground.  Voted  Ben- 
jamin Goldsmith  moderator,  John  Reeve,  Clerk. 

"ist  Voted  that  there  should  be  a  board  fence  made 
of  Albany  boards  and  Locust  posts,  Suppose  the  mate- 
rials will  Cost  thirty  Dollars. 

"2d  Voted  that  James  Halliock,  William  H.  Pike, 
be  a  committee  to  attend  to  this  business." 

Then  follows  a  list  of  subscribers,  with  the  amounts 
subscribed  to  meet  the  estimated  expense,  ranging  from 
"2  lb  of  nails,"  by  William  Simons,  the  blacksmith  (the 
nails  probably  made  at  his  own  forge),  up  to  one  pound 
in  money  ($2.50). 

The  names  are  interesting  today ;   . 

Jonathan  Horton  [Father  of  B.  Bailey,  and  grand- 
father of  Andrew.] 

William  Wells  [Father  of  John,  next  below.] 

John  Wells   [Father  of  Joseph.] 

Benjamin  Goldsmith. 

Barnabas  Howell  [Son  of  2d  Micah.] 

Benjamin  Reeve  [Father  of  Deacon  Henry,  Richard 
S.,  Daniel,  Mrs.  Bethiah  Cox,  Mrs.  B.  B.  Horton,  Mrs. 
Esther  Clark,  Mrs.  Amanda  Terry.] 

Jacob  Aldrich. 

Parshal  Davis  [Lived  on  Cox's  Neck,  Brother  of 
Timothy  below.] 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  I55 

William  H.  Pike  [grandfather  of  Wm.  H.  Pike  and 
Mrs.  Alice  Gildersleeve  and  Mrs.  Frances  M.  Raynor.]     . 

John  Reeve  [Brother  of  5th  James  and  Rev.  Na- 
thaniel.] 

John  Hubbard  [Kept  Mattituck  House.] 

Phoebe  Wickham  [Probably  wife  of  ist  Joseph  P. 
Wickham.] 

Timothy  Davis  [Lived  on  Cox's  Neck.  Brother  of' 
Parshall  above.  Father  of  Israel,  Timothy,  Parshall, 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Homan  and  Mrs.  Maria  Clark.] 

Isaiah  Benjamin  [Father  of  Austin  W.,  John,  George,.. 
Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Reeve,  Sarah  Goldsmith,  Mrs.  Harmony 
Tuthill,  and  Mrs.  Hannah  Tuthill.] 

James  Aldrich  [Probably  James  the  son  of  Gershom 
below.] 

John  Clark,  3d  [son-in-law  of  Jonathan  Horton, 
above.    Father  of  Silas  H.] 

John  Tuthill  [Lived  where  Alvah  Mulford  lives. 
Brother  of  Albert.] 

James  Reeve  [sth  James.  Father  of  Jas.  W.,  Irad, 
Edward,  Jeremiah,  Mrs.  Hannah  Conkling,  Mrs.  Phebe 
M.  Wickham.] 

John  Corwin  [5th  John.    Major  Corwin.] 

Barnabas  Wines  [5th  Barnabas.  Father  of  Wm.  and 
great-grandfather  of  Jas.  H.] 

Nathaniel  Hubbard  [Deacon.  Cousin  of  John  above. 
Son  of  2d  Isaac.  Grandfather  of  N.  Hubbard  Cleve- 
land, of  Southold.  Lived  where  H.  P.  Tuthill  now 
lives.] 

Daniel  Downds  [Grandfather  of  Arthur  L.  Downs.] 

Ruporte  Halliock  [Son  of  3d  Zerubbabel.  Father  of 
David  B.  and  of  Betsey,  first  wife  of  Edward  Reeve.] 


156  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

Joseph  Aldrich  [His  nephew,  Sylvester  Cooper,  be- 
came his  chief  heir  in  1819.] 

Mrs.  Mary  Halliock  [Mother  of  Ruport] 

Ely  Aldrich. 

Richard  Halliock  [Son  of  2d  Zerubbabel.] 

Richard  Halliock,  Jr.  [Son  of  Richard,  above.] 

John  Howell  [Father  of  Sylvester,  and  grandfather 
of  Chauncey  P.] 

William  Simons  [Blacksmith,  lived  in  house  lately 
of  Oliver  Mayo.  Son  of  Peter.  Great-grandfather  of 
Mrs.  Richard  Cox  and  Mrs.  W.  Gordon  Hazard.] 

Jacob  Aldrich,  Jr. 

Benjamin  Halliock  [Father  of  Joshua  and  Benjamin 
H.] 

Watson  Aldrich  [Son  of  Joshua.] 

James  Halliock  [Son  of  James  and  Amelia  (Gold- 
smith)  Halliock.] 

Jonathan  Howell  [Grandfather  of  Mrs.  Betsey  Jane 
Tuthill.] 

Daniel  Howell  [Brother  of  Jonathan  above,  and  of 
Mrs.  Cynthia  Moore.] 

William  Brown  [Lived  on  east  part  of  farm  now  of 
David  Jenkins.] 

Zachariah  Halliock  [Son  of  2d  Zerub.  Brother  of 
Richard  above  and  of  Ezra.] 

Isaac  Reeve  [Major  Isaac.  Son  of  3d  James,  and 
imcle  of  John  and  James  above.  Father  of  Isaac  T.  and 
Selah.] 

Luther  Reeve  [Brother  of  Benjamin  above.  Father 
■of  late  Thomas  and  of  Mrs.  Silas  M.  Hallock.] 

Daniel  Halliock  [Brother  of  Richard  and  Zachariah 
above.] 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  1 57 

Mr.  Hedges. 

Mehetable  Halliock  [Sister  of  Rupert.] 

Thomas  Reeve,  Jr.  [Brother  of  Benjamin  and  Luther 
above.    Grandfather  of  Thos.  E.] 

Wells  Ely  [Lived  S.  of  Highway,  east  of  Geo.  H. 
Fischer's  ice  house.  Father  of  Sophia,  wife  of  Irad 
Reeve.] 

Josiah  Woodhull  [Lived  in  Franklin  ville,  now 
Laurel.] 

James  Worth  [Father  of  John  Worth  and  grand- 
father of  Mrs.  Alice  H.  (Worth)  Boutcher.  Lived  then 
on  Jas.  J.  Kirkup's  farm.] 

Jesse  Reeve  [Cousin  of  Benjamin  and  Luther  above. 
Son  of  James  and  Parnel  (Howell)  Reeve.  Father  of 
Jas.  M.  and  Edward  Y.] 

Nehemiah  Simons   [Brother  of  William  above.] 

Silas  Reeve. 

Gershom  Aldrich  [Father  of  Gershom  and  James; 
grandfather  of  Gershom,  Daniel,  Elisha  and  Isaac] 

John  Clark,  Jr. 

Hector  Hubbard. 

It  is  noticeable  that  several  of  these  are  Franklinville 
(Laurel)  and  Northville  (Sound  Avenue)  nanies.  In 
1809  there  were  no  such  places  known  as  Franklinville 
or  Northville,  or  even  Jamesport.  Mattituck  and  Aque- 
bogue  parishes  covered  the  whole  ground.  The  resi- 
dents of  the  eastern  parts  of  the  present  Laurel  and 
Northville  belonged  to  Mattituck,  and  are  prominent 
among  the  subscribers  to  this  fence,  as  their  dead  were 
laid  to  rest  in  the  sacred  enclosure  at  Mattituck. 

In  1809  the  burying  ground  was  nearly  one  hundred 
years  old,  and  many  were  its  occupants.     Some  were 


158  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

probably  buried  there  in  1715,  the  year  it  was  given  to 
the  parish.  No  stone  in  it  bears  older  date  than  1723, 
but  this  is  not  strange,  for  the  stones  had  to  be  brought 
from  a  distance,  many  of  them  from  Connecticut  and 
some  from  England,  at  considerable  expense.  Those 
strange  little  blue  slate  grave-stones  of  the  i8th  century 
cost  more,  comparatively,  than  fine  marble  monuments 
today.  Not  one-half  of  the  earliest  graves  are  marked. 
There  are  thirty-five  stones  placed  earlier  than  1750. 
■Of  these  the  oldest  are  inscribed  to  the  memory  of  two 
infant  children  of  Lieut,  (afterwards  Deacon)  Thomas 
Reeve,  who  died  Nov.  13th  and  Dec.  2d,  1723.  Their 
graves  lie  near  the  middle  of  the  old  ground,  in  the  row 
next  east  of  that  in  which  their  father  and  mother  and 
the  Hon.  James  Reeve,  Esq.,  were  later  buried.  There 
are  twenty-five  stones  that  mark  the  graves  of  rtlen  and 
women  whose  lives  dated  back  into  the  17th  century.  If 
all  the  graves  were  marked  this  number  would  be  greatly 
increased.  A  study  of  the  inscriptions  forces  the  con- 
clusion that  parents  were  more  careful  to  mark  the 
graves  of  their  children  than  surviving  children  were  to 
mark  the  graves  of  their  parents.  The  stone  that  carries 
us  farthest  back  into  the  seveteenth  century  is  that  of  John 
Parker,  in  the  Wickham  lot.  He  died  Feb.  7th,  1727,  in 
his  70th  year.  He  was  born  then  as  early  as  1658.  He 
was  a  Southampton  man,  a  man  of  wealth  and  conse- 
quence. He  was  known  as  Doctor  Parker,  and  was  also 
a  fuller,  with  a  large  fulling  mill  at  the  Riverhead.  He 
was  the  father  of  two  daughters,  one  of  whom,  Abigail, 
married  Justice  Joseph  Wickham,  of  Cutchogue;  the 
other,  Mary,  married  Wm.  Albertson.  After  leaving 
Southampton  he  dwelt  at  the  Riverhead,  but  probably 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  1 59 

ended  his  days  with  his  daughter,  Abigail  (Parker) 
Wickham.  He  was  the  grandfather  of  Thomas  Wick- 
ham,  who  was  the  grandfather  of  Charles  W.  Wick- 
ham. He  was  also  the  great-grandfather  of  Parnel  Wick- 
ham, who  was  the  first  wife  of  5th  James  Reeve,  and  the 
mother  of  James  Wickham  Reeve  and  Irad  Reeve. 

The  original  burying  ground  extended  to  the  south- 
ward only  so  far  as  the  path  that  runs  from  east  to  west, 
a  little  south  of  the  Chapel  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 
About  1847  the  ground  was  enlarged  by  the  purchase  of 
a  strip  of  ground  some  sixty  rods  wide  from  north  to 
south,  running  the  whole  length  of  the  old  burying 
ground.  In  1883  another  strip  of  ground,  south  of  this 
was  purchased  by  the  Bethany  Cemetery  Association,  the 
lots  in  it  were  sold  to  individuals,  and  this  is  known  as 
the  "Bethany  Cemetery." 

The  "New  Bethany  Cemetery"  across  the  South  Road 
from  Bay  Avenue,  and  extending  to  the  railroad,  com- 
prising five  acres,  was  purchased  by  the  Mattituck  Cem- 
etery Association  in  1870,  and  was  sold  in  1894  to  the 
Bethany  Cemetery  Association. 

In  April,  1809,  the  Presbytery  of  Long  Island  (re- 
placing since  1790  the  Presbytery  of  Suffolk)  met  in 
Mattituck.  Mr.  Goldsmith  was  its  moderator.  That  day 
a  Mr.  Benjamin  Bailey  was  .introduced  as  a  candidate 
for  license  to  preach  the  gospel.  That  young  man  be- 
came Mr.  Goldsmith's  successor  in  charge  of  Mattituck 
and  Aquebogue.  Mr.  Bailey  was  probably  a  Southold 
man.  He  was  licensed  the  following  year,  shortly  before 
Mr.  Goldsmith's  death,  and  in  Sept.,  181 1,  received  a  call 
from  the  united  churches.  At  the  same  meeting  of  Pres- 
bytery at  which  he  received  his  call,  another  young  man 


l6o  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

'of  Southold  Town  preached  his  trial  sermon  for  ordina- 
tion. This  was  Abraham  Luce,  who  became  the  pastor  o£ 
Mattituck  and  Aquebogue  about  fifteen  years  later. 

On  the  6th  of  November,  1811,  Benjamin  Bailey  was 
ordained  and  installed  in  the  Aquebogue  Church  as  pastor 
of  Mattituck  and  Aquebogue.  Mr.  Bailey  remained  with 
these  churches  until  May  18,  1816.  It  is  hard  to  forgive 
him  for  leaving  not  one  scrap  of  records  for  these  four 
and  one-half  years.  The  late  Mrs.  Bethiah  Cox  remem- 
bered Mr.  Bailey  and  his  wafe.  Benjamin  Reeve,  Mrs. 
Cox's  father,  lived  in  Mr.  Bailey's  day  in  the  house  now 
owned  by  Wm.  Broderick  and  occupied  by  Thos.  Kelly 
and  his  sisters.  Mrs.  Cox  remembered  the  Baileys  as  oc- 
cupying the  old  house  on  the  hill,  later  owned  by  John 
Franks  Horton,  Esq.,  and  now  superseded  by  the  Wick- 
ham  cottage.  Mrs.  Cox's  mother,  Joanna  (Corwin)  Reeve, 
and  Mrs.  Bailey  were  intimate  friends,  and  used  to  ex- 
change visits  frequently.  In  those  days  the  ladies  used 
to  take  their  spinning  wheels  when  they  went  to  spend 
an  afternoon  together,  just  as  their  daughters  and  grand- 
daughters took  their  knitting,  and  their  great-grand- 
daughters take  their  fancy-work. 

Mr.  Bailey  removed  from  Mattituck  to  Newark,  N.Y., 
and  organized  the  church  there  that  now  has  a  member- 
ship of  over  six  hundred.  He  preached  later  in  East 
Palmyra,  N.  Y.,  but  being  in  poor  health  he  was  com- 
pelled to  cease  from  the  active  work  of  the  ministry,  and 
settled  on  a  farm  near  Newark,  where  he  died  about 
1848,  in  the  neighborhood  of  sixty  years  of  age.  He 
was  a  graduate  of  Union  College,  and  studied  theology 
with  Dr.  Lyman  Beecher.  It  was  his  desire  to  become  a 
foreign  missionary,  but  ill-health  prevented.     He  is  said 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  l6l 

to  have  been  a  man  of  beautiful  Christian  spirit,  and  his 
ministry  in  Xewark  was  blessed  with  a  remarkable  re- 
vival. His  grandchildren  remember  hearing  his  wife, 
who  survived  him  some  twenty-five  years,  tell  of  his 
death.  *'He  stood  with  his  wife  at  the  window',  facing 
the  west,  admiring  a  beautiful  sunset.  He  talked  of 
heaven  long  and  earnestly,  of  its  jasper  walls,  of  its 
streets  of  gold,  of  its  gates  of  pearl,  of  its  crystal  stream. 
He  seemed  almost  glorified.  He  then  sat  down  and  died 
in  his  chair  shortly  after." 

He  had  three  children,  William,  Benjamin  and  Har- 
riet (Mrs.  Foster),  who  are  all  dead.  Several  of  his 
grandchildren  survive,  one  of  them  being  Benjamin  Pliny 
Foster,  of  Xewark,  X.  Y.,  to  the  kindness  of  whose  wife 
the  writer  is  indebted  for  these  facts  in  regard  to  Mr. 
Bailey's  life  and  death. 

The  only  record  preserved  pertaining  to  the  church 
in  the  time  of  Mr.  Bailey's  pastorate  is  "An  Inventory  of 
the  Property  Belonging  To  the  Corporation  of  Mattituck 
Society,"  April  5th,  1813,  giving  a  list  of  notes  and  in- 
terest due  the  "Bank,"  aggregating  S658.02,  to  the  cor- 
rectness of  which  James  Reeve,  James  Halliock  and  John 
Hubbard  made  oath  before  Judge  Tared  Landon. 

The  year  following  Mr.  Bailey's  departure,  18 17,  is 
prom.inent  as  the  date  of  incorporation  of  "Union 
Parish."  In  that  year  the  two  societies  that  had  been 
associated  together  for  the  best  part  of  seventy  years  in 
the  support  of  a  common  pastor  determined  to  establish 
a  still  closer  union,  to  be  no  longer  the  United  Parishes 
of  Mattituck  and  Aquebogue,  but  one  solid  society  to  be. 
known  as  Union  Parish.    Accordingly, 

"The   Inhabitants  of  the   parishes  of   Mattituck-  ancf 


l62  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

Aqnebogue  in  the  towns  of  Southold  and  Riverhead  in 
the  County  of  Suffolk  and  State  of  New  York,  taking  into 
consideration  the  importance  of  having  the  Gospel 
preached  in  our  parishes,  and  feeling  our  inability  to 
support  a  Minister  in  each  parish.  Do  most  Cheerfully 
and  Unanimously  agree  to  unite  and  become  one  parish 
and  be  Incorporated  with  the  pleasing  hope  that  by  doing 
so  we  may  obtain  the  desired  object,  viz..  The  establish- 
ment of  a  Gospel  Minister." 

Such  was  the  preamble  to  the  certificate  of  incorpora- 
tion adopted  at  a  meeting  in  the  Middle  School-house 
(Franklinville,  now  Laurel)  May  7th,  181 7.  It  was 
decided  that  the  consolidated  societies  should  be  known 
as  Union  Parish,  and  the  following  trustees  were  elected : 
James  Reeve,  William  H.  Pike,  Nathaniel  Hubbard,  John 
Woodhull,  JabezCorwin,  and  Selden  Herrick.  The  cer- 
tificate of  incorporation  is  recorded  in  Liber  A,  p.  33,  of 
Certificates  of  Religious  Incorporations,  in  the  County 
Clerk's  office. 

From  that  day  to  Aug.  29th,  1853,  or  more  than 
thirty-six  years,  there  was  no  Mattituck  Parish,  and  no 
Aquebogue  Parish.  They  twain  became  one  body.  It  is 
not  unlikely  that  the  desire  to  hold  a  parsonage  in  com- 
mon was  a  prime  motive  in  forming  the  union,  for  the 
first  thing  the  trustees  of  Union  Parish  are  known  to  have 
done  was  to  purchase  a  parsonage  farm  of  twenty-three 
acres,  near  Jamesport,  for  $1,236.00.  This  must  have 
been  purchased  partly  with  the  Mattituck  bank's  funds, 
an  equal  amount  probably  being  subscribed  in  Aquebogue. 

The  farm  lay  on  the  north  side  of  the  highway, 
bounded  west  by  the  present  line  of  Herrick's  Lane. 
The  dwelling  house  was  burned  down  some  years  ago. 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  163 

Its  successor,  on  the  old  site,  sheltered  by  a  huge  weep- 
ing- willow,  stands  directly  across  the  road  from  the 
residence  of  Senator  Edward  Hawkins,  and  about  a  quar- 
ter of  a  mile  east  of  the  Rev.  Benjamin  Goldsmith's 
ancient  dwelling. 

The  only  minister  to  occupy  the  parsonage  farm  was 
the  Rev.  Nathaniel  Reeve,  a  son  of  Mattituck,  who  as- 
sumed charge  of  Union  Parish  as  a  stated  supply  in 
the  year  of  its  organization.  He  was  the  third  son  of 
4th  James  and  Anna  (Wines)  Reeve.  His  father  was  a 
graduate  of  Princeton,  in  the  class  of  1754,  but  he  studied 
at  Yale.  His  studies  were  interrupted  by  the  Revolu- 
tionary war,  and  he  served  when  but  eighteen  years  of 
age  in  Washington's  army.  After  the  war  he  returned 
to  New  Haven,  but  his  college  course  w^as  broken  again 
by  ill-health.  Perhaps  attracted  to  it  by  his  own  condi- 
tion, he  studied  medicine,  and  his  health  being  re-estab- 
lished, he  also  gave  attention  to  theology,  being  licensed 
to  preach  in  1791.  He  then  went  South,  and  took  up  the 
practice  of  medicine,  preaching  also,  in  Liberty  (now 
Bedford  City),  Virginia.  While  there  he  married  Miri- 
am Erwin,  in  1795.  Returning  to  Long  Island  some  ten 
years  later  he  became  pastor  of  the  West  Hampton 
Church.  From  there  he  went  to  Deerfield,  N.  J.,  and  in 
1817  came  to  the  Union  Parish. 

A  letter  written  in  Deerfield,  April  i8th,  1817,  by  Mr. 
Reeve  to  his  brother  James  in  Mattituck  indicates  that 
he  had  lately  visited  his  old  home  and  had  received  a 
^'unanimous  and  affectionate"  invitation  to  become  pastor 
of  the  church.  The  letter  is  bright  with  faith  in  God  and 
full  of  good  counsel  for  the  church.  There  is  a  touch  of 
humor  in  it  when  he  asks  that  the  Mattituck  friends,  irt 


164  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

anticipation  of  his  arrival  about  the  first  of  June,  "will 
please  to  put  in  a  plain  garden  for  us ;  not,  as  I  might  say, 
of  Pinks,  but  of  Potatoes."  As  to  the  manner  of  the  long 
journey  he  writes,  "Upon  the  most  mature  reflection  and 
careful  inquiry  respecting  the  manner  of  removal,  I  have 
concluded  to  sell  the  heavy  articles  in  the  house  with  our 
out-door  matters,  and  send  the  rest  round  from  Phila- 
delphia to  New  York  by  packet,  and  thence  down  the 
Sound  to  the  place  of  destination.  Nathaniel  and  two  o£ 
the  Boys  must  go  with  the  goods,  and  the  rest  of  the 
children  we  can  bring  by  land  in  our  light  wagon,"  He 
expected  the  expenses  of  the  journey  to  consume  the  pro- 
ceeds of  the  sale  of  part  of  his  goods.  "The  sacrifice,"  he 
said, "which  we  shall  be  obliged  to  make  of  our  little  prop- 
erty will  be  considerable,  and  when  we  arrive  we  shall  be 
in  want  of  almost  everything."  In  a  postscript  this  letter 
enlightens  us  as  to  what  was  the  forerunner,  a  hundred 
years  ago,  of  the  church  sewing  society.  "Sister  Hetty," 
goes  the  postscript,  referring  to  Mrs.  Mehetable  Reeve^ 
"will  attend  to  the  Spinning  Society." 

Some  of  the  oldest  people  in  the  parish  remember  Mr. 
Reeve  and  his  southern  wife.  He  used  to  drive  to  Matti- 
tuck  with  his  large  family  in  a  roomy  chaise  on  the  alter- 
nate Sundays  when  services  w^ere  held  in  the  eastern  end 
of  the  parish,  and  it  was  his  custom  to  announce  from  the 
pulpit  the  family  with  which  he  expected  to  dine  upon 
the  occasion  of  his  next  visit. 

Mr.  Reeve  served  Union  Parish  with  acceptance,  but 
like  his  immediate  predecessor  he  left  no  records.  Thus 
for  fifteen  years,  from  1810  to  1825,  there  is  not  a  line  to 
tell  of  births,  baptisms,  marriages,  additions  to  the 
church  or  deaths  in  Mattituck.     A  complete  roll  of  the 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  165 

members  of  Union  Parish  in  1825  contains  the  names  of 
thirty-eight  persons  (out  of  a  total  of  seventy-four)  who 
were  not  members  in  1810.  These  thirty-eight,  therefore, 
several  of  whom  were  most  influential  members  for  years 
after,  were  a  part  of  the  fruit  of  the  ministry  of  Mr. 
Bailey  and  Mr.  Reeve. 

From  early  manhood  Mr.  Reeve  was  subject  to  sea- 
sons of  deep  depression  and  in  1823  this  tendency  devel- 
oped into  a  permanent  melancholia  which  unfitted  him 
for  further  ministerial  labor.  The  Union  Parish  then 
exhibited  the  character  of  its  people  by  securing  a  home 
for  Mr.  Reeve  and  his  family  in  w-hich  he  was  maintained 
for  the  remaining  ten  years  of  his  life.  A  house  was  pur- 
chased for  his  residence  by  the  trustees  of  Union  Parish. 
After  his  death  it  was  sold.  It  still  stands,  in  good  re- 
pair and  neat  appearance,  the  second  house  w^est  of  the 
railroad  crossing  in  Laurel,  on  the  north  side  of  the 
highway. 

The  Rev.  Nathaniel  Reeve  died  Apr.  9,  1833,  aged  'jt^ 
years.  He  lies  buried  in  the  Mattituck  church-yard,  be- 
side his  forefathers,  and  amid  the  people  of  his  charge. 
His  widow,  Miriam  Erwin,  survived  him  nearly  nine 
years,  and  her  grave  is  next  to  her  husband's.  Her  name 
was  given  by  her  husband's  nephew,  James  Wickham 
Reeve,  to  his  second  daughter,  Miriam  Irwin  Reeve,  who 
became  Mrs.  Thomas  W.  Osborne.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Reeve  had  thirteen  children,  of  whom  nine  grew  to  man- 
hood and  womanhood.  The  fourth  son,  Samuel,  recently 
died  in  New  York  City,  at  the  great  age  of  ninety-six. 
A  great-grandson,  Horace  Disbrow  Reeve,  Esq.,  of  Phil- 
adelphia, published,  in  1903,  an  interesting  sketch  of  the 
life  of  "Nathaniel  Reeve,  Preacher  and  Patriot." 


l66  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

The  parsonage  property  near  Jamesport  was  never 
occupied  by  another  minister.  It  was  sold  between  the 
years  1825  and  1835,  and  the  proceeds,  about  a  thou- 
sand dollars,  became  the  principal  of  a  Union  Parish 
bank. 

The  next  minister  after  Mr.  Reeve  was  the  Rev. 
-Abraham  Luce.  This  name  brings  us  into  modern  his- 
tory, for  excepting  an  interval  of  four  years,  from  1835 
to  1839,  Mr.  Luce  ministered  in  Union  Parish  until  1845, 
and  is  well  remembered  by  many  persons  now  living. 
The  beginning  of  Mr.  Luce's  ministry  is  also  the  begin- 
ning of  the  church's  modern  history  in  this,  that  from 
that  date  the  records  are  complete.  Session  meetings 
.were  probably  held  before,  but  at  this  time  the  session 
began  to  keep  regular  minutes,  attested  by  a  clerk.  This 
first  clerk  of  session,  who  served  for  more  than  twenty- 
seven  years,  was  Judge  David  Warner,  of  Jamesport. 
His  Record  Book  is  a  model  of  intelligent  and  painstaking 
work.  His  manuscript  is  as  plain  as  print,  and  very  beau- 
tiful. The  following  memorandum  is  the  first  entry  in- 
.his  record : 

"On  the  17th  day  of  June,  1825,  The  Rev'd  Abraham 
Luce  agreed  to  preach  in  Union  Parish  every  second  Sab- 
'bath,  or  half  the  time,  during  one  year — the  year  to  be- 
gin the  day  and  date  above  mentioned." 

This  is  followed  by  a  complete  roll  of  church  mem- 
bers in  Union  Parish,  Aug.  13th,  1825.  There  were  sev- 
enty-four members  in  the  list.  All  of  them  have  entered 
.into  the  communion  of  the  church  above.  The  last  sur- 
vivor was  Lydia  Wells,  afterwards  Mrs.  Isaac  Wilbur, 
who  died  Feb.  9th,  1898.  It  was  still  the  custom  to  have 
new   members   received   bv  vote   of  the   whole   church. 


H2  ^ 


l68  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

JMenibers  asking  certificates  of  dismission  were  likewise 
■dismissed  by  vote  of  the  church. 

Judge  Warner  also  kept  record  of  births,  baptisms  and 
deaths,  and  began  a  record  of  marriages,  but  soon  became 
discouraged  and  discontinued  this.  He  records  about 
twenty  marriages  from  1825  to  1828.  Evidently  they  were 
not  properly  reported  to  him.  It  is  easier  for  the  minister 
who  solemnizes  the  marriages  to  record  them.  In  1829 
the  judge  knew  of  only  two  marriages,  none  in  1830  and 
1831,  and  only  two  in  1832.  After  one  he  writes,  "June 
near  the  middle.  The  day  I  don't  know."  After  another, 
recorded  out  of  consecutive  order,  "I  did  not  hear  of  it 
until  after  the  above."  He  then  closed  this  department  of 
records  finally,  with  the  note,  "I  have  concluded  not  to 
record  marriages.  David  Warner,  Clerk."  Among  those 
recorded  are: 

Joseph  P.  Wickham  to  Phebe  M.  Reeve,  April  ist, 
1827. 

Goldsmith  Hallock  to  Betsey  Ann  Hallock,  Feb.  12th, 
1828, 

William  Wickham  to  the  widow  x\bby  Hubbard,* 
Nov.,  1828. 

The  first  regular  session  meeting  with  full  minutes 
was  held  Dec.  22d,  1826,  at  the  house  of  Deacon  Nathan- 
iel Hubbard.  The  elders  at  that  time  were  :  James  Reeve, 
John  Reeve,  Nathaniel  Hubbard,  John  Woodhull,  David 
Warner,  Joseph  Hudson,  and  Hezekiah  Skidmore. 

Mr.  Luce  lived  upon  his  own  farm  in  Northville.  He 
was  ministering  to  the  West  Hampton  Church  when  he 


*This    was    Abigail,    daughter    of    Major    John    Corwin,    and 
Widow  of  Jolm  Hubbard. 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  169 

agreed  to  give  half  his  lime  to  the  Union  Parish.  There- 
after he  preached  one  Sunday  in  four  at  Mattituck,  one  at 
Jamesport,  and  two  at  West  Hampton,  driving  about  this 
"widespread  parish  through  Summer's  sands  and  Winter's 
.snows. 

The  beginning  of  his  labors  in  Union  Parish  was 
marked  by  a  large  ingathering.  Within  a  year  twenty 
persons  were  received  upon  confession  of  their  faith.  So 
satisfactory  were  his  ministrations  that  the  engagement 
•entered  into  for  one  year  was  continued  without  break 
for  ten  years.  In  the  midst  of  this  term,  in  1830,  mo- 
mentous events  transpired.  The  two  old  church  build- 
ings were  replaced  with  new  ones,  and  the  people  of  the 
Middle  District  withdrew  and  organized  the  Franklinville 
•Church — a  parish  within  a  parish. 

Both  of  the  old  buildings  were  unsuitable  for  further 
use.  That  in  Mattituck  was  115  years  old,  and  that  in 
Aquebogue,  100.  The  people  of  the  Middle  District  de- 
sired to  have  one  new  building  erected,  midway  between 
the  old.  This  was  not  an  unreasonable  proposition. 
Indeed,  if  the  Union  Parish  was  to  continue  as  one, 
there  were  great  advantages  in  this  plan,  for  with  the  two 
houses  of  worship  four  miles  apart  it  was  impossible, 
except  on  extraordinary  occasions,  to  bring  the  entire 
congregation  too-ether.  But  both  of  the  old  buildings 
stood  at  centres  of  population,  both  were  surrounded  by 
the  graves  of  generations  past,  and  about  both  the  sacred 
traditions  and  strong  affections  of  the  living  were  en- 
twined. However  reasonable  the  considerations  urged 
by  the  Middle  District,  and  although  a  somewhat  general 
understanding  had  taken  shape  long  since  that  when  the 
time    for   rebuilding   came    a    central    place   of   worship 


170  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

should  be  established,  when  the  time  for  actual  decision 
came  the  masses  of  the  people  could  not  bring  themselves 
to  vote  that  way,  and  it  was  determined  to  rebuild  on  the 
old  sites.  This  decision  was  carried  out,  but  a  sad  breach 
was  made  in  the  spiritual  temple.  Several  families  in  the 
Middle  District,  embracing  not  a  few  of  the  most  useful 
and  honored  members  of  the  church,  separated  from  the 
Union  Parish  and  established  a  church  of  their  own. 
This  new  society  was  recognized  by  the  Presbytery  and 
taken  under  its  care.  Their  house  of  worship  was 
immediately  built,  midway  between  the  others,  two 
miles  from  either.  The  Franklinville  Church  was  regu- 
larly-organized, and  its  sanctuary  dedicated,  June  30th, 
1831. 

The  new  church  built  in  Mattituck  in  1830,  on  the  site 
•of  the  original  building,  was  a  great  improvement  in 
every  respect  upon  the  primitive  structure  that  it  replaced. 
It  fronted  the  north  as  the  present  church  does.  Like 
the  old  building  it  had  galleries  around  three  sides.  In 
the  north  gallery,  facing  the  pulpit,  the  choir  stood  and 
sang  without  an  instrument,  under  the  leadership  of 
Deacon  John  Reeve.  He  was  succeeded  some  years  after 
by  Squire  J.  Franks  Horton.  When  the  present  church 
was  built,  in  1853,  the  building  of  1830  was  moved  and 
became  the  home  of  the  newly  organized  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church.  It  is  now  the  chapel  of  that  society, 
joined  to  their  elegant  new  sanctuary. 

In  1835  the  Rev.  Abraham  Luce  left  the  Union  Par- 
ish, but  the  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  the  people 
is  attested  by  their  calling  him  again  to  their  service  four 
years  later.  In  the  interim  the  parish  was  supplied  by  the 
Rev.  Lyman  C.  Gilbert,  and  the  Rev.  Jonathan  Huntting- 


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Meeting  House. 


172  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

Returning  in  1839,  Mr.  Luce  gave  not  half  but  all  his 
lime  to  the  Union  Parish  until  1845. 

Owing  to  the  withdrawal  of  the  Middle  District  there 
were  only  sixty-eight  names  on  the  Union  Parish  roll 
July  4th,  1 83 1.  Within  a  year  sixty-three  new  names  were 
added.  This  was  the  second  revival  under  Mr.  Luce's 
ministry. 

Under  Mr.  Gilbert,  in  1838,  eleven  persons  were  re- 
ceived into  the  communion.  One  of  these  was  Patience 
Corwin,  now  Mrs.  Hamlin.  Hers  is  the  earliest  name  on 
the  Union  Parish  roll  that  is  on  the  Mattituck  roll  at 
this  time. 

If  Mr.  Luce  had  continued  with  the  Union  Parish 
without  the  interim  of  four  years,  his  pastorate  would 
liave  covered  twenty  years.  After  his  final  departure  in 
1845  ^^  y^t  lived  twenty  years,  dying  at  the  ripe  age  of 
seventy-five,  Oct.  23d,  1865.  On  his  tombstone,  that 
stands  on  the  highest  ground  in  the  Jamesport  burying- 
^round,  near  the  western  end,  these  words  are  carved, 
■quoted  from  his  half-century  sermon  before  the  Presby- 
tery of  Long  Island,  delivered  in  1840: 

"I  hope  for  salvation  by  grace  through  the  atoning 
blood  of  Christ.  I  know  no  other  way ;  I  desire  no 
other." 

A  fitting  inscription  this,  taken  from  his  own  words, 
to  sum  up  the  faith  and  hope  of  a  faithful  minister  of 
the  changeless  gospel. 

Mr.  Luce  was  a  man  of  solid,  rugged  character.  He 
labored  hard  for  Christ's  sake,  and  the  sake  of  souls,  not 
for  filthy  lucre.  The  Rev.  James  T.  Hamlin  is  authority 
for  the  statement  that  his  salary  in  Union  Parish  could 
not  have  exceeded  $250  a  year.     The  same  competent 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  I/J 

witness,  who  knew  him  well  for  nearly  twenty  years, 
characterizes"  him  as  "a  plain  and  practical  preacher."^ 
Mr.  Luce  was  a  man  of  prominence  and  influence  in 
the  Presbytery,  and  was  its  Stated  Clerk  from  1836  to- 
1841. 


CHAPTER  VII. 

CHURCH  HISTORY  FROM   1845  TO  THE  PRESENT  TIME. 

In  the  preceding  chapter  the  parish  history  from  Rev- 
olutionary times  to  1845  was  traced.  In  1845  the  Rev. 
Abraham  Luce  conchided  his  ministry  in  Mattituck.  It 
remains  to  set  forth  in  this  chapter  the  church  history  of 
Modern  Mattituck,  from  1845  to  the  present  time,  and 
this  will  include  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  es- 
tablished in  1853,  and  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 
founded  in  1877. 

After  an  interval  of  two  years  following  the  depart- 
ure of  Mr.  Luce,  in  which  the  Rev.  Edward  Harris 
among  others  served  as  supply,  God  in  His  providence 
sent  to  Mattituck  the  man  who  was  destined  to  surpass 
all  his  predecessors  in  potent  influence  upon  the  people, 
to  see  the  Union  Parish  dissolved  and  the  Mattituck 
Church  begin  again  its  individual  existence,  to  direct  and 
confirm  the  Mattituck  Church  in  substantial  growth  and 
■development,  to  give  to  the  people  the  strength  of  his 
youth  and  the  ripe  powers  of  his  maturer  years,  and  when 
laid  aside  from  active  duties  by  infirmity  of  age  to  con- 
tinue in  the  parish  for  yet  other  thirteen  years,  his  very 
presence  a  benediction.  That  man  was  the  Rev.  James 
Trowbridge  Hamlin. 

Mr.  Hamlin  came  to  Long  Island  in  June,  1846,  to 
visit  a  friend.     He  was  sent  by  the  Rev.  John  Wood- 


REV.  JAMES  TROWBRIDGE   HAMLIN. 


176  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

bridge,  then  at  Greenport,  to  preach  in  Mattitnck.  It  was 
a  case  of  love  at  first  acquaintance.  Mr.  Hamlin  con- 
tinued to  supply  the  Union  Parish,  and  Franklinville  as 
well,  from  that  day,  and  was  ordained  and  installed,  Nov. 
4th,  1847,  i^  the  Franklinville  church  as  pastor  of  Union 
Parish  and  Franklinville.  And  so  for  a  time  all  the 
people  from  the  western  limits  of  Cutchogue  to  the 
eastern  limits  of  Upper  Aquebogue  were  again  united 
under  one  pastor.  It  was  fondly  hoped  that  under  Mr. 
Hamlin's  acceptable  and  judicious  administration  the  di- 
vided churches  might  again  be  incorporated  in  one.  This,, 
however,  was  not  to  be.  The  breach  was  too  recent  and 
the  intense  feeling  that  caused  it  though  no  longer  active 
was  still  latent.  Moreover,  deep-seated  divisive  tenden- 
cies in  the  Union  Parish  itself  proved  even  more  power- 
ful than  Mr,  Hamlin's  strong  conciliatory  spirit,  and  in 
1853  the  Union  Parish  was  dissolved.  Thereafter  Mr. 
Hamlin  ministered  in  Mattituck  alone.  During  the  four 
years  of  his  wider  pastorate  it  was  his  custom  to  preach 
in  Franklinville  in  the  morning  and  in  Mattituck  and 
Jamesport  on  alternate  Sabbath  afternoons. 

It  was  on  the  29th  day  of  August,  1853,  at  3  P.  M:, 
that  the  people  of  Mattituck  and  Jamesport  met  in  their 
respective  houses  of  worship  and  enacted  the  dissolution 
of  Union  Parish  and  the  incorporation  of  two  distinct 
societies.  The  Certificate  of  Incorporation  of  Mattituck 
Society  was  recorded  Sept.  6th,  1853,  in  the  County 
Clerk's  office,  in  Liber  A  of  Certificates  of  Religious  In- 
corporations, p.  128.  At  the  meeting  of  the  Presbytery 
the  following  spring,  March  21st,  1854,  at  the  request  of 
Elder  James  W.  Reeve,  the  Mattituck  Church  was  recog- 
nized as  a  separate  organization.     The  members  of  the 


A    HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  I77 

western  end  of  the  Union  Parish  had  become  the  James- 
port  Congregational  Church. 

The  new  roll  of  JMattituck  Church,  prepared  by  Mr. 
Hamlin,  April  17th,  1854,  contains  the  names  of  forty- 
two  persons.  Union  Parish  at  the  separation  had  eighty- 
two  members.  The  elders  in  Mattituck  were  James 
Wickham  Reeve,  Barnabas  Bailey  Horton,  and  John 
Franks  Horton.  On  March  31st,  1854,  the  session  was  in- 
creased by  the  ordination  of  Edward  Reeve  and  Henry 
Reeve  to  the  eldership.  The  trustees  of  the  Mattituck 
Society  at  the  time  of  its  organization  were  Benjamin  G. 
Hallock,  David  B.  Hallock,  Isaac  R.  Howell,  Jr.,  James 
W.  Reeve,  J.  Smith  Tuthill  and  Henry  Pike. 

No  sooner  had  Mattituck  begun  again  to  shift  for 
itself  than  the  indomitable  enterprise  of  the  people  ex- 
pressed itself  in  a  determination  to  erect  a  new  building. 
The  second  edifice,  that  had  been  built  in  1830  by  the 
brothers  Salter  and  Thomas  Horton  of  Peconic,  was  sold 
to  Thomas  Hallock,  was  removed  to  the  west  of  the 
burying-ground,  and  much  to  the  surprise  of  the  Presby- 
terians became  the  home  of  a  Methodist  Episcopal  con- 
gregation. 

Fifty  years  ago  Presbyterians  and  Methodists  did 
not  live  on  very  friendly  terms  in  a  community. 
There  were  even  cases  of  discipline  before  the  session  of 
the  Mattituck  Presbyterian  Church  arising  from  the  at- 
tendance of  some  of  its  members  upon  the  services  of 
the  Methodists.  Happily  these  grand  divisions  in  the 
Lord's  army  now  fight  side  by  side  in  the  battles  of  the 
kingdom  in  all  the  world.  For  many  years  the  two 
churches  in  Mattituck  have  maintained  unbroken  friendly 
relations.     It  is  a  fact  pleasant  to  record  that  in  1896, 


ELDEKS  OF  1854. 
John  Franks  Horton.  Edward  Keeve. 

James  "Wickham  Reeve. 
Henry  Reeve.  Barnabas  Bailey  Horton. 


A    HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  1/9 

when  the  new  Methodist  church  was  erected  and  the 
old  building  was  moved  to  the  rear  to  serve  as 
a  chapel,  the  additional  land  required  for  these  improve- 
ments was  given  freely  to  the  Methodist  society  by  the 
trustees  of  the  Presbyterian  parish. 

The  present  Presbyterian  building  was  erected  upon 
the  original  site  by  Master-builder  Andrew  Gildersleeve. 
He  and  his  wife  carried  their  membership  to  Mattituck 
from  the  Cutchogue  Church  in  June,  1854.  His  wife  was 
Anna,  the  eldest  daughter  of  James  Wickham  Reeve. 
Mr.  Gildersleeve  came  of  an  old  and  prominent  Brook- 
haven  family.  He  was  ordained  an  elder  in  the  Alatti- 
tuck  Church  in  1862,  serving  until  his  death  in  1894. 
He  was  not  only  the  builder  of  the  church  edifice,  but 
during  many  years  of  devoted  service  was  a  prominent 
worker  in  the  building  up  of  the  spiritual  temple  to  God's 
glory. 

The  church  then  built  was  the  present  one,  and  yet 
not  the  present,  for  it  was  without  the  wings  on  either 
side  and  had  neither  steeple  nor  bell.  It  was  a  plain, 
substantial  building,  without  the  claims  to  beauty  that  the 
present  church  can  modestly  maintain.  Neither  were  its 
surroundings  so  attractive  as  now.  It  was  about  this 
time  that  the  trees  were  set  out  in  front  of  the  church 
that  today  give  charm  to  the  spot.  To  the  late  Joseph 
Parker  Wickham  the  credit  for  this  is  due,  and  the  follow- 
ing generations  for  whom  he  planted  should  keep  his 
memory  ever  green. 

In  the  church  of  1853,  before  the  extensions  on  the 
sides  were  added,  the  choir  gallery,  or  platform,  was  in 
the  north  end  of  the  audience  room  opposite  to  the  pulpit. 
About  that  time,  the  present  chorister,  George  B.  Reeve, 


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A     HISTORY  ,  OF     MATTITUCK. 


assumed  charge  of  the  music,  and  he  has  rendered 
eminent  service  ever  since.  For  years  Mattituck  Church 
has  been  renowned  for  its  excellent  music.  This  has  been 
largely  due  to  the  able,  conscientious  and  indefatigable 
leadership  of  Mr.  Reeve.  His  predecessor  as  chorister 
was  Elder  John  Franks  Horton,  and  before  him  the 
leader  of  the  singing  for  many  years  was  Deacon  John 


TUt.  I  i;i::?i_.YTEUiAN   ^.iiL  i.CH. 


Reeve,  the  great-uncle  of  the  present  chorister,  George 
B.  Reeve. 

In  1871  the  church  was  rebuilt  by  O.  K.  Buckley  of 
Greenport,  being  greatly  enlarged  by  the  extensions  on 
the  sides  and  greatly  improved  in  appearance  by  the 
erection  of  the  steeple,  the  symmetrical  lines  of  which,  in 
perfect  proportion  with  the  building,  excite  the  admira- 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  l8l 

tion  of  every  artistic  beholder.  The  fine  bell,  cast  in  the 
renowned  Meneely  Bell  Foundry  of  West  Troy,  N.  Y., 
was  the  gift,  in  1877,  of  a  visitor  from  New  York  City, 
Mr.  John  Sneden. 

The  same  year  that  saw  the  erection  of  the  church, 
1853,  saw  the  parsonage  built.  The  lot  on  which  it 
stands,  one  acre  in  extent,  was  given  by  Elder  Edward 
Reeve  to  the  parish  in  a  perpetual  lease,  with  a  yearly 
rental  of  three  dollars,  and  with  a  proviso  that  it 
should  be  used  as  a  parsonage  property  only.  In  1895 
the  parish  made  extensive  repairs  and  additions  to  the 
parsonage,  after  purchasing  outright  the  property 
from  the  heirs  of  Edward  Reeve.  At  this  time  such 
of  the  heirs  as  dwelt  in  Mattituck  gave  their  interest 
in  the  property  to  the  parish  for  a  nominal  considera- 
tion. 

Mr.  Hamlin  with  his  family  occupied  the  parsonage 
from  the  time  of  its  completion  until  his  death  in  1892,  a 
period  of  almost  forty  years.  After  his  retirement  from 
the  active  work  of  the  pastorate,  October  ist,  1879,  he 
was  made  Pastor  Emeritus,  and  the  congregation  showed 
their  strong  afifection  for  him  and  a  proper  appre- 
ciation for  his  long  unselfish  service  among  them,  by 
voting  that  he  should  occupy  the  parsonage  as  long  as 
he  lived.  Nothing  short  of  this  would  have  been 
righteous;  nothing  short  of  this  would  have  been  pos- 
sible to  the  generous  people  that  had  bought  a  house 
to  shelter  the  Rev.  Nathaniel  Reeve  in  his  retire- 
ment. 

Mr.  Hamlin  was  thrice  married.  His  first  and  second 
wives  were  sisters,  daughters  of  Charles  Parry,  M.  D,,  of 
Sandy  Hill,  N.  Y.     Both  died  in  their  youth,  and  each 


l82  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

left  in  the  care  of  the  bereaved  father  an  infant  daughter. 
His  third  wife,  who  survives  in  honored  old  age  as  his 
widow,  was  Miss  Patience  Corwin,  of  Aquebogue,  a  de- 
scendant of  some  of  the  oldest  families  of  Southold  Town. 
Mrs.  Hamlin  resides  in  Riverhead,  and  is  often  a  wel- 
come visitor  in  Mattituck,  and  it  is  counted  a  privilege  to 
retain  her  name  as  one  of  the  oldest  on  the  ]\Iattituck 
Church  roll.  Her  daughter,  Sarah  R.,  is  the  wife  of  the 
Rev.  Charles  Albert  Stonelake,  of  Newark,  N.  J.  ]Mr. 
Hamlin's  eldest  daughter  is  the  wife  of  Elder  Benjamin 
C.  Kirkup  of  Mattituck.  His  second  daughter,  Hattie, 
became  the  wife  of  Rev.  William  Hedges,  her  father's 
successor  in  the  pastorate,  but  died  in  1887,  going  before 
her  aged  father  to  the  heavenly  home. 

It  would  require  a  volume  to  record  all  that  the  older 
people  of  Mattituck  cherish  in  their  memory  of  Mr.  Ham- 
lin's pastorate.  In  the  years  of  his  ministry  the  little 
church  grew  strong.  The  men  who  hold  the  offices  of 
elder  and  trustee  today  were,  most  of  them,  trained  under 
his  influence.  The  elder  portion  of  the  present  member- 
ship came  into  the  communion  of  the  church  and  therein 
was  trained  under  his  faithful  preaching.  The  roll  of 
forty-two  members  in  1854  had  grown  to  seventy-nine 
in  1864  in  spite  of  many  deaths  and  disiuissions.  The 
years  1873  and  1876  were  marked  by  powerful  revivals. 
In  the  former  eighteen  and  in  the  latter  sixty-nine  were 
brought  into  the  communion  of  the  church.  At  the  time 
of  his  death  the  little  band  of  forty-two  was  more  than 
trebled. 

After  his  retirement  the  people  were  glad  when  from 
time  to  time  the  Pastor  Emeritus  occupied  the  pulpit. 
They  loved  the  man  and  they  appreciated  the  sermons. 


A    HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  1 83 

which  Dr.  Epher  Whitaker  characterizes  as  '"particularly 
original,  rich,  spiritual  and  elaborate."  Dr.  Whitaker 
further   writes  of  him  : 

''In  the  beloved  and  trustworthy  disciple  who 
leaned  on  Jesus'  bosom  may  be  seen  the  proper  type 
of  the  Rev.  James  T.  Hamlin.  .  .  .  He  gave  his 
eminently  industrious  life  almost  entirely  to  his  own 
congregation.  Their  love  for  him  was  equalled  only 
by  his  love  for  them.  He  had  the  greatest  dread  of  even 
the  possibility  of  appearing  to  be  obtrusive,  pretentious 
or  assuming.  Hence  he  maintained  an  excessive  reserve 
everywhere  except  in  his  own  congregation.  His  reserve 
was  closely  allied  to  his  manly  independence  and  his 
unwillingness  to  trouble  or  burden  others.  All  the  ex- 
penses of  his  classical  and  theological  education  were 
paid  by  his  own  earnings,  except  three  hundred  dollars, 
the  gift  of  his  father.  He  never  accepted  a  cent  from  any 
other  man,  nor  from  any  society. 

'"He  never  shone  anywhere  more  brightly  than  in  the 
hospitality  of  his  own  home.  It  was  cheerful,  cordial, 
frank.  Its  fulness,  exuberance,  and  peculiarly  congenial 
character  almost  made  his  guests  believe  that  it  had  never 
cost  him  care,  forethought,  drill  and  discipline  of  him- 
self to  acquire  his  remarkable  ability  in  this  Christian 
virtue  and  grace.       .     . 

"He  was  a  preacher  of  eminent  originality,  for  he 
never  ceased  to  study  the  Word  of  God  with  a  view 
of  its  application  to  human  needs.  This  disposition  of 
all  his  powers  and  aims  never  failed  to  be  spiritual. 
His  theology  was  Biblical  rather  than  systematic.  He 
preached  with  the  utmost  heartiness  the  doctrines  of 
gfrace." 


184  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

On  the  stone  erected  to  Mr.  Hamlin's  memory  in  the 
graveyard  is  the  simple  inscription, 

REV.    JAMES   T.    HAMLIN 

Born  July  2,  1812, 
In   Pastoral   Relations 
'  with  the  Presbyterian  Church 

'  of  Mattituck 

From  1846  till  his 
Death,  Aug.  29,  1892. 

Mr.  Hamlin  was  born  in  Moreau,  Saratoga  County, 
N.  Y.  His  father  was  of  English  Puritan  ancestry,  his 
mother  of  French.  He  was  educated  in  a  classical  school 
at  Glens  Falls,  N.  Y.,  and  at  Burr  Seminary,  Manchester, 
Vt.,  taking  his  theological  course  in  the  Gilmanton,  N.  H., 
Seminary.  He  was  licensed  to  preach  in  April,  1841,  by 
the  Hopkinton  Association  of  Congregational  Churches  in 
New  Hampshire.  In  the  interval  between  this  and  his 
settlement  in  Mattituck  he  was  hampered  by  poor  health 
which  allowed  little  promise  of  the  long  years  of  useful 
service  in  store  for  him.  Shortly  before  coming  to  Mat- 
tituck he  traveled  in  the  West  for  the  sake  of  his  health, 
and  took  advantage  of  a  winter's  studies  at  Lane  Theo- 
logical Seminary  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Six  ministers  have  succeeded  Mr.  Hamlin  in  charge 
of  the  church.  Four  of  these  ministered  to  the  people 
while  he  was  living  as  pastor  emeritus.  The  first  of  these 
was  the  Rev.  William  Hedges,  who  acted  as  stated  supply 
for  four  years.  Mr,  Hedges  is  now  pastor  of  the  Con- 
gregational Church  at  Colebrook,  Conn.     He  comes  of 


FR-E  FORMER  ELDERS. 

John  W.  Duiyee.  Edward  Y.  Reeve. 

Andrew  Gildersleeve. 

Selah  Youpg.  Isaac  R.  Howell. 


l86  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

an  old  Long  Island  family,  being  a  son  of  Judge  Henrj 
P.  Hedges  of  Bridgehampton.  He  was  graduated  from 
Yale  University  in  1874  and  from  the  Yale  Divinity 
School  in  1878.  While  in  Alattituck  he  married  Miss 
Hattie  Hamlin,  the  second  daughter  of  the  pastor  emer- 
itus, and  from  Mattituck  went  to  Jamesport  to  become  the 
pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church  that  had  formerly 
been  joined  with  Mattituck  in  the  Union  Parish. 

The  Rev.  George  R.  Garretson  was  installed  pastor 
June  27th,  1883,  and  resigned  July  ist,  1887,  to  accept  a 
call  to  the  Claremont  Presbyterian  Church  of  Jersey  City, 
N.  J.  He  is  an  alumnus  of  Rutgers  College  and  of  Union 
Theological  Seminary.  During  his  pastorate,  on  March 
25th,  1884,  the  Ladies'  Missionary  Society  was  organ- 
ized. Mrs.  Garretson  was  its  first  president,  Mrs.  Thos, 
A.  Hallock  and  Mrs.  Daniel  Downs  its  vice-presidents., 
Mrs.  Irad  W.  Gildersleeve  its  secretary,  and  Mrs.  Sidney 
P.  Tuthill  its  treasurer.  Mr.  Garretson  has  lately  taken 
charge  of  the  Franklinville  Church,  in  Laurel,  to  the 
great  satisfaction  of  the  people  of  that  parish  and  to  the 
delight  of  his  Mattituck  friends. 

The  Rev.  Wm.  G.  W'oodbridge  became  stated  supply 
Alarch  ist,  1889,  and  continued  in  Mattituck  for  three 
years.  Mr.  Woodbridge  is  a  native  of  Louisiana,  and 
has  spent  most  of  his  life  in  the  service  of  the  Southern 
Presbyterian  Church.  He  is  now  pastor  of  a  church  of 
that  connection  in  Birmingham,  Alabama.  He  is  a  grad- 
uate of  Princeton  L^niversity,  1865,  and  of  Princeton 
Theological  Seminary,  1879.  He  was  pastor  of  the  Fifth 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago  before  coming  to  Matti- 
tuck. During  Mr.  Woodbridge's  term  of  service  the 
chapel  was  built  in  the  rear  of  the  church,  and  under  his 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  187 

guidance  the  Young  People's  Society  of  Christian  En- 
deavor was  formed.  His  geniality  as  a  man  and  his 
eloquence  as  a  preacher  commended  him  to  the  affection 
and  admiration  of  the  people  of  Mattituck. 

The  Rev.  James  W.  Hillman  began  to  supply  the 
church  in  the  summer  of  1891  and  was  installed  as  pastor 
June  28th,  1892,  being  the  sixth  regularly  installed  pastor 
of  the  church,  He  resigned  Feb.  9th,  1894,  accepting  an 
appointment  from  President  Cleveland  as  Chaplain  in  the 
U.  S.  Army.  He  is  at  present  serving  with  the  Sixteenth 
Infantry.  ATr.  Hillman  was  born  in  West  Saugerties, 
N.  Y.,  w^as  graduated  from  the  University  of  the  City  of 
New  York,  1873,  and  from  Union  Theological  Seminary, 
1876.  During  his  pastorate  the  organ  fund  was  raised, 
and  a  fine  pipe  organ,  made  by  Earle  of  Hempstead,  was 
installed  in  the  church.  With  industry  and  enthusiasm 
Mr.  Hillman  was  very  successful  in  his  work,  and  like 
his  predecessors  is  held  in  affectionate  remembrance  by 
the  people  of  Mattituck. 

The  Rev.  R.  Howard  Wallace  supplied  the  church  one 
year  after  Mr.  Hillman.  Mr.  Wallace  was  for  more  than 
twenty-five  years  pastor  of  the  church  in  his  native  vil- 
lage. Little  Britain,  N.  Y.  During  the  Civil  War  he 
served  a  year  as  chaplain  in  the  army.  He  has  done  much 
faithful  and  efficient  work  as  a  home  missionary  in  North 
Dakota  and  in  the  Adirondacks.  He  is  an  alumnus  of 
Union  College  and  of  the  Newburgh  Theological  Semi- 
nary. He  has  been  a  frequent  and  welcome  visitor  in 
Mattituck  since  he  relinquished  charge  of  the  church. 

Following  Mr.  Wallace,  the  Rev.  Charles  E.  Craven 
became  stated  supply  Sept.  ist,  1895.  Graduated  from 
Princeton  University  in  1881,  and  Princeton  Theological 


15©  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

Seminary  in  1886,  he  was  pastor  of  churches  in  Birming- 
ham, Pa.,  and  Downington,  Pa.,  before  taking  up  work 
in  Mattituck.  He  became  Permanent  Clerk  of  the  Pres- 
bytery of  Long  Island  in  1899,  ^"^  Stated  Clerk  in  1903, 
succeeding  in  that  office  the  venerable  Rev.  Dr.  Epher 
Whitaker,  who  resigned  after  forty-seven  years  of  em- 
inent service. 

The  Sabbath  School  has  over  two  hundred  members, 
with  nineteen  teachers.  The  superintendent  is  Elder 
Henry  J.  Reeve.  It  is  only  in  recent  years  that  the  rec- 
ords of  the  school  have  been  preserved.  The  earliest 
superintendent  now  in  recollection  of  the  people  was 
Elder  John  Franks  Horton,  who  served  more  than  twen- 
ty-five years.  He  was  followed  by  Elder  Edward  Y. 
Reeve,  Rev.  Geo.  R.  Garretson,  Elder  B.  O.  Robinson, 
Rev.  Jas.  W.  Hillman,  Elder  Benj.  C.  Kirkup,  and  Elder 
Henry  J.  Reeve.  The  assistant  superintendent  is  Elder 
Kirkup ;  W.  V.  Duryee  is  secretary,  Sidney  R.  Gilder- 
sleeve  is  assistant  secretary,  and  John  G.  Reeve  treas- 
urer. 

Of  the  Young  People's  Society  of  Christian  Edeavor 
the  president  is  Miss  Clara  M.  Howard,  Victor  H. 
Kirkup  is  vice-president,  Arthur  L.  Downs  is  correspond- 
ing secretary.  Miss  Mabel  V.  Brown  recording  secretary, 
and  Miss  Edith  Penny  treasurer. 

The  officers  of  the  Ladies'  Missionary  Society  are : 
Mrs.  Charles  E.  Craven,  president ;  Mrs.  George  B.  Reeve 
and  Miss  Mary  A.  Gildersleeve,  vice-presidents ;  Mrs,  H. 
Halsey  Reeve,  secretary,  and  Miss  L.  M.  Hallock  treas- 
urer. 

A  Young  Ladies'  Missionary  Society  was  organized 
in  the  summer  of  1905.     Its  president  is  Miss  May  S. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  1 89 

Penny,  its  vice-president  is  Miss  Clara  M.  Howard,  its 
secretary  Miss  Mabel  V.  Brown,  and  its  treasurer  Miss 
Emilie  A.  Robinson. 

Two  Sewing  Societies  among  the  ladies,  lately  consol- 
idated, have  done  great  things  by  taking  many  little 
stitches.  Besides  clothing  the  needy,  with  the  proceeds 
of  their  needlework  they  have  paid  off  chnrch  debts,  built 
additions  to  church  and  parsonage,  painted  walls,  inside 
and  out,  carpeted  floors,  papered  rooms,  made  repairs,, 
and  by  many  good  works  have  shown  their  devotion  to 
the  church.  The  president  of  the  consolidated  society  is 
Mrs.  Charles  W.  Wickham. 

The  present- trustees  of  the  church  are  Benj.  C.  Kirk- 
up,  president;  Charles  Gildersleeve,  treasurer;  Nat.  S. 
Tuthill,  Conrad  Grabie,  John  G.  Reeve,  and  Henry  J. 
Reeve. 

The  present  ruling  elders,  with  the  dates  of  their  or- 
dination, are:  Barnabas  O.  Robinson  and  Benjamin  C. 
Kirkup,  1880;  John  E.  Gildersleeve  and  George  Henry 
Howard,  1890;  Henry  J.  Reeve  and  William  H.  Satterly, 
1905. 

The  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  was  organized  in 
1853.  In  that  year  a  lot  of  ground,  50  ft.  by  75  ft.,  ad- 
joining the  old  burying  ground  on  the  west  and  fronting 
on  the  North  Road  was  sold  by  Barnabas  Bailey  Horton 
to  Thomas  Hallock,  consideration  one  dollar,  "for  the 
purpose  of  a  church  edifice."  To  this  lot  Thomas  Hal- 
lock  removed  the  old  Presbyterian  building  which  he  had 
purchased.  This  was  the  building  erected  in  183 1,  out- 
grown by  the  Presbyterians  in  1853,  and  giving  place  to 
the  present  edifice.  After  the  transfer  of  the  building 
Thomas  Hallock  conveyed  the  lot  and  building,  in  1854, 


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to  the  Trustees  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 
These  first  trustees  were :  Thomas  Hallock,  Andrew  Hor- 
ton,  Walter  Terry,  John  Reeve,  Isaac  Howell,  Sr.,  Bar- 
nabas Pike,  and  George  Benjamin. 

The  church  was  for  a  few  years  under  the  care  of  the 
pastor  of  the  Cutchogue  Church.  During  those  years  the 
pastors  were  the  Rev.  Messrs.  O.  C.  Lane,  G.  W.  Allen, 


■:^^ 


!lllt:i.^ 


THE   METHODIST  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH. 


T.  G.  Osborne,  and  O.  C.  Lane.  Since  separation  from 
the  Cutchogue  Church  the  pastors  have  been  the  Rev. 
Messrs.  F.  G.  Howell,  W.  A.  Layton,  O.  C.  Lane,  D.  B. 
Vosseller,  H.  F.  Nichols,  J.  E.  Ferine,  L  S.  Yerks, 
George  Leavens,  John  Nash,  Julius  Nelson,  E.  P.  Alvord, 
H.  A.  Goering.  D.  O.  Osterheld,  R.  W.  Thompson,  G. 
W.  Humphreys  and  the  present  pastor,  the  Rev.  W.  W. 


A    HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  I9I 

Weller.  For  a  number  of  years  the  Mattituck  pastor  has 
also  had  charge  of  the  South  Jamesport  Church. 

During  the  pastorate  of  the  Rev.  WilHam  A.  Layton 
a  powerful  revival  blessed  this  church  and  the  entire 
€ommunity.  The  religious  interest  was  so  great  that  the 
Methodist  church  could  not  contain  the  congregations 
and  the  meetings  were  transferred  to  the  Presbyterian 
Church.  Both  societies  were  greatly  increased  and 
strengthened  by  this  work  of  grace.  Mr.  Layton,  for 
years  past  serving  the  larger  churches  in  the  City  of 
Brooklyn,  has  a  summer  cottage  at  the  Jamesport  Camp 
Grounds,  and  he  is  an  annual  visitor  in  Mattituck.  He 
is  much  beloved  by  the  people  of  the  village  and  people 
cf  all  denominations  delight  to  hear  him  preach. 

While  the  Rev.  Julius  Xelson  was  pastor,  in  1896,  the 
present  beautiful  edifice  was  erected.  The  old  building 
was  moved  to  the  south  to  be  used  as  a  chapel,  the 
new  church  being  joined  to  it.  By  sliding  doors  the 
ehapel  is  connected  with  the  main  audience  room. 

The  trustees  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  are 
Joseph  B.  Hudson,  Joshua  Ackeson,  Isaac  N.  Teed,  E.  O. 
Chapman,  E.  P.  Reeve,  Charles  M.  Robinson. 

The  stewards  are  Charles  M.  Robinson,  District  Stew- 
ard ;  Mrs.  Charlotte  Betts,  Joshua  Ackeson,  E.  P.  Reeve, 
Mrs.  Silas  H.  Howell. 

The  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  the  Redeemer 
was  organized  in  1877  ^^  ^  mission  under  the  care  of  the 
Bishop  of  Long  Island.  In  that  year  a  lot  of  one  hundred 
and  fifty  feet  by  seventy  in  the  southwest  corner  of  the 
hotel  property  was  given  by  Henry  A.  Dingee  to  the 
Diocese  of  Long  Island,  "only  to  be  used  and  occupied 
for  an  English  Episcopal   Church."     The  building  was 


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erected  and  was  opened  for  service  in  July,  1879.  Previ- 
ous to  that  time  the  congregation  worshipped  in  a  hall. 
The  rectors  of  St.  James'  Church  in  Riverhead  have 
had  charge  of  the  Mattituck  Church.  The  Rev.  Thomas 
Cook  was  in  charge  until  his  death  in  1884.  ^'^^  the  next 
ten  years  the  Rev.  Robert  Weeks  was  the  rector,  with 
the  Rev.  C.  A.  Jessup  and  the  Rev.  W.  Smith  as  his  as- 


THE  CHURCH  OF  THE  REDEEMER. 


sociates.  The  Rev.  R.  M.  Edwards  took  charge  in  1894,. 
and  was  succeeded  by  the  Rev.  Geo.  W.  West  in  1897. 
In  1902  the  Rev.  W.  A.  Wasson,  the  present  rector,  took 
charge.  Mr.  Wasson  is  more  closely  identified  with  Mat- 
tituck than  any  of  his  predecessors,  having  purchased,  in 
connection  with  his  brother,  the  Rev.  James  R.  Wasson, 
the  Glover  farm,  at  the  northeast  corner  of  the  North 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  I93 

Road  and  Cox's  Lane.    This  farm  is  the  old  Presbyterian 
parsonage  property  of  a  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago. 

There  is  no  Roman  Catholic  Church  in  Mattituck. 
but  Mattituck  families  of  that  faith  form  a  large  and  in- 
fluential part  of  the  congregation  of  the  Rev.  James 
Lynch  of  Cutchogue. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 

MATTITUCK   BEFORE  THE   RAILROAD. 

The  opening  of  the  Long  Island  Railroad  to  Green- 
port  in  1844  revolutionized  conditions  in  Suffolk  County, 
giving  quick  and  ea^y  communication  with  the  outer 
world.  Before  the  advent  of  the  railway  Southold  Town 
for  two  hundred  years  had  seen  little  change  in  its  cus- 
toms. Communication  with  the  outer  world  was  carried 
on  chiefly  through  small  sailing  vessels.  Soon  after  1820 
the  stage  line  between  Riverhead  and  Brooklyn  was 
started,  and  in  1826  the  stage  line  between  Sag  Harbor 
and  Brooklyn.  The  Riverhead  stage  left  Brooklyn  every 
Tuesday  morning  at  eight  o'clock  and  arrived  in  River- 
head the  next  afternoon.  Returning  the  stage  left  Riv- 
erhead Thursday  at  noon  and  reached  Brooklyn  Friday 
evening.  The  stages  followed  the  old  Middle  Road, 
passing  through  Middle  Island,  Coram,  Smithtown, 
Commack,  Jericho,  Westbury  and  Jamaica.  The  through 
fare,  one  way,  was  $3.00.  The  Sag  Harbor  stage,  having 
a  longer  route,  charged  $5.00.  It  left  Brooklyn  every 
Monday  morning  at  six  o'clock,  stopped  for  the  night  at 
Fire  Place,  and  arrived  at  Sag  Harbor  Tuesday  evening. 
The  return  trip  was  made  Friday  and  Saturday,  starting 
at  six  A.  M.,  stopping  for  dinner  at  West  Hampton  and 
reaching  Patchogue  that  night,  stopping  for  dinner  Sat- 
urday   at    Babylon   and   reaching   Brooklyn   that   night. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  I95 

These  stages  carried  the  mails  until  the  railroad  put  them 
out  of  business.  Before  the  day  of  the  stage  routes  the 
mails  were  carried  weekly  on  horseback.  For  some  years 
the  mail  carrier  from  Brooklyn  to  Orient  was  Barnabas 
Wines  of  Alattituck,  the  father  of  James  H.  Wines,  and 
his  predecessor  as  mail  carrier  was  his  father,  William 
Wines.  The  mails  were  light.  Letters  were  few,  and 
newspapers  were  rare.  A  villager  who  received  a  weekly 
newspaper  welcomed  all  his  neighbors  of  a  Saturday 
evening,  and  together  they  enjoyed  the  excitement  of 
reading  and  discussing  the  news. 

A  weekly  Monday  mail  route  was  established  between 
Riverhead  and  Quogue  in  1829.  Before  that  date  letters 
from  Mattituck  to  the  Hamptons  or  Sag  Harbor  went  by 
way  of  Jamaica.  The  Monday  short  cut  saved  one  week 
in  the  transmission  of  mails  between  points  north  and 
south  of  Peconic  Bay. 

For  the  year  ending  March  31st,  1827,  as  reported  in 
the  Sag  Harbor  "Watchman"  of  March  15th,  1828,  the 
total  post-office  receipts  upon  Long  Island  were  less  than 
$2,500.00.  That  year  the  Brooklyn  post-office  earned  for 
the  government  $1,039.34,  considerably  less  than  the 
receipts  of  the  Mattituck  office  today.  Mattituck  then 
was  credited  with  the  receipts  of  $18.93.  Riverhead  (or 
Suffolk  Court  House)  boasted  of  $51.28;  Southold, 
$32.09;  Cutchogue,  $11.71;  Southampton,  $55.36;  East 
Hampton,  $75.95  and  Sag  Harbor,  a  great  whaling  port, 
$143.83.     Mattituck  is  now  a  third-class  office. 

When  wind  and  tide  were  favorable  the  journey  be- 
tween IMattituck  and  New  York  could  be  made  more  rap- 
idly by  the  sloop  "Celerity"  of  Capt.  Barnabas  Wines, 
or  later  by  the  sloop  "Aunt  Jemima"  of  Capt.  Gilbert 


196  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

Davis,  than  by  stage.  The  late  Geo.  W.  Howard  told  of 
bidding  his  uncle's  family  good-bye  as  they  left  one 
morning  for  Riverhead  to  take  the  stage.  He  then  hur- 
ried to  the  inlet  and  boarded  the  "Aunt  Jemima"  and 
surprised  his  uncle  by  meeting  him  when  he  alighted  from 
the  stage  in  Brooklyn  the  next  evening.  The  stage  had 
the  advantage  of  being  able  to  run  both  winter  and  sum- 
mer. The  small  boats  were  of  course  put  out  of  com- 
mission through  the  winter.  At  the  close  of  the  season, 
lured  out  by  specious  weather,  they  were  sometimes 
caught  in  terrible  storms.  Tradition  tells  of  the  great 
Christmas  snowstorm  of  181 1,  when  many  small  vessels 
were  lost  on  the  Sound.  A  remarkably  mild  early  winter 
had  tempted  the  venturesome  mariners  to  continue  their 
trips  between  eastern  points  and  the  city.  One  of  the 
most  terrific  storms  ever  known  set  in  on  Christmas 
day,  wrecking  everything  that  was  afloat.  Such  of  the 
unfortunate  sailors  as  reached  the  shore  perished  from 
the  intense  cold  amid  the  blinding  snow.  Among  the 
vessels  lost  was  the  sloop  "Rosetta,"  in  which  were 
Thomas  Mapes  and  many  other  inhabitants  of  Southold 
Town, 

All  heavy  or  bulky  freight  had  to  be  carried  by  water. 
One  of  the  buildings  near  the  house  of  Capt.  Joshua  Ter- 
ry was  the  shoe  shop  of  John  Clark,  the  son-in-law  of 
Deacon  Jonathan  Horton  and  the  father  of  the  late  Silas 
H.  Clark,  and  this  shoe  shop  was  brought  by  boat  from 
New  York  about  1830.  Silas  H.  Clark,  the  son,  fol- 
lowed his  father  in  the  shoe  business  and  carried  on  the 
manufacture  quite  extensively,  employing  at  one  time  as 
many  as  thirty  or  forty  hands.  He  lived  in  his  grand- 
father Horton's  house,  next  south  of  the  church,  now 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  I97 

owned  by  the  estate  of  Manuel  Boutcher,  and  recently 
occupied  by  Fred  Clark,  grandson  of  Silas  H.  A  frame 
building  was  erected  near  the  house  as  a  shoe  factory. 
This  building  was  later  moved  and  is  now  the  dwelling 
house  of  Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Chapman. 

Silas  H.  Clark,  besides  engaging  in  the  shoe  business, 
started  the  first  stage  and  express  between  Mattituck  and 
Riverhead.  He  connected  at  Riverhead  with  the  Brooklyn 
stage,  and  did  a  considerable  business  until  the  railroad 
was  opened.  The  highway  at  that  time  between  Matti- 
tuck and  Riverhead  was  not  the  excellent  road  that  it  is 
today.  Much  of  the  way  it  was  deep  with  sand,  and  no 
part  was  worse  than  through  Mattituck  woods.  At  the 
foot  of  the  hill  west  of  the  New  Bethany  Cemetery  a 
small  stream  crossed  the  road  and  afforded  a  regular 
watering  place  for  passing  teams.  This  watering  place 
is  several  times  mentioned  in  the  town's  Records  of 
Highways. 

In  the  early  forties  the  houses  in  Mattituck  were 
<:omparativeIy  few  and  the  place  had  seen  little  material 
change  for  a  hundred  and  fifty  years.  There  were  three 
small  stores,  one  at  the  hotel,  kept  by  the  Shirleys,*  and 
the  other  two  nearly  a  mile  east,  one  standing  near  the 
residence  of  H.  B.  Lupton,  kept  by  Squire  J.  Franks  Hor- 
ton,  and  the  other  across  the  way,  kept  by  Ira  Tuthill,  the 
father  of  Philip  W.  This  store  stood  on  the  east  side 
of  the  Tuthill  residence.    The  building,  moved  back  from 


*The  heirs  of  John  Hubbard  sold  the  hotel  in  1826  to  Henry 
T.  Penny.  In  1833  Penny  sold  to  James  Shirley.  James  Shirley 
and  his  son  John  after  him,  kept  the  hotel  for  more  than  thirty 
years.  In  1866  John  Shirley  was  succeeded  by  Capt.  Benjamin 
F.  Wells. 


198  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

the  road,  serves  now  as  an  out-house.  A  short  dis- 
tance west  of  Squire  Horton's  store  was  the  school- 
house,  marking  closely  the  centre  of  population  at  that 
time. 

The  first  volume  of  Mattituck  school  minutes  is  lost. 
There  can  be  no  doubt  that  a  school  was  maintained  from 
very  early  times.  The  second  volume  begins  with  1829. 
The  minutes  gave  strict  accounts  of  all  financial  matters, 
even  noting  the  receipts  from  the  sale  of  the  wood  ashes 
from  the  school  stove,  ranging  from  twenty-five  to  fifty 
cents  a  year.  The  names  of  the  trustees  and  the  officers 
of  the  annual  meeting  are  given  with  unfailing  accuracy, 
but  the  names  of  the  teachers  are  omitted.  A  male 
teacher  was  employed  during  the  chief  or  winter  term, 
and  a  female  during  the  summer  term.  Silas  M.  Hal- 
lock,  still  surviving  in  active  old  age,  taught  for  two 
years  about  1840.  He  was  preceded  by  Albert  Tuthill 
and  was  followed  by  a  Dr.  Preston.  The  next  was 
S.  Lewis  Sibley,  who  afterwards,  like  his  predecessor, 
became  a  physician.  Dr.  Sibley  married  Mary  Augusta^ 
youngest  daughter  of  James  Wickham  Reeve  and  sister 
of  Mrs.  Andrew  Gildersleeve.  It  is  remembered  by 
some  of  the  scholars  of  those  days  that  among  the  teach- 
ers of  the  summer  term  were  Miss  Elizabeth  Wickham, 
sister  of  Lawyer  Wickham  of  Cutchogue,  Miss  Anna 
Wickham  Reeve,  who  became  Mrs.  Andrew  Gildersleeve, 
and  Miss  Maria  Crowell  of  Southold. 

In  1840  the  trustees  reported  that  there  was  a  select 
school  in  the  village  with  about  twenty  pupils.  In  1843 
there  were  no  private  schools.  The  select  school  of  1840 
was  taught  in  the  upper  story  of  F.  C.  Barker's  house, 
then  on  the  main  highway. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  I99 

In  1835  the  parents  or  guardians  sending  children  to 
school,  with  the  number  of  children  in  each  family,  were  as 
follows  :  Irad  Reeve,  two ;  John  Reeve,  one ;  Luther  Reeve^ 
one ;  Elizabeth  Reeve,  one ;  Daniel  Howell,  one ;  James  W. 
Reeve,  two;  Elymas  Reeve,  four;  Isaiah  T.  Benjamin, 
one ;  Barnabas  Wines,  five ;  John  Cor  win.  one  ;  Ira  TuthilK 
three ;  George  L.  Conklin,  two ;  Jesse  H.  Tuthill,  three ; 
Jesse  Tuthill,  three;  Benjamin  Reeve,  three;  Lysander 
Walton,  two ;  James  Shirley,  three  ;  Daniel  Fanning,  four  ; 
John  F,  Horton,  two ;  John  Gardiner,  one ;  James  W^orth, 
one ;  Elisha  Tuthill,  three  ;  Widow  Gardiner,  one ;  Silas  H. 
Mapes,  three;  John  Tuthill,  two;  Barnabas  Bailey  Hor- 
ton, two ;  Edward  Reeve,  one ;  Josiah  Lupton,  two  ;  Piatt 
S.  Conkling,  two  ;  John  Clark,  two  ;  Henry  Hubbard,  one ; 
Nathaniel  Hubbard,  one.  A  few  years  earlier  Henry- 
Pike  was  on  the  list  with  one.  and  James  Reeve  appeared 
with  three.  James  Reeve  died  in  1830,  and  later  his  wid- 
ow, Mehetable,  appeared  with  three.  In  1830  Henry  T. 
Penny  had  one ;  Lewis  Goldsmith,  one ;  Mehetable  How- 
ell, two ;  Isaiah  Benjamin,  one ;  Mary  Cooper,  two ;  Pru- 
dence Horton,  one ;  Sarepta  Tuthill,  three.  In  1836  there 
were  added  James  Davis,  one,  and  Silas  Tuthill,  one. 

Since  1832  the  Franklinville  Academy  had  been  open, 
and  the  older  boys  and  girls  of  Mattituck  attended  its 
sessions.  For  years  it  was  conducted  by  the  successive 
pastors  of  the  Franklinville  Church,  with  assistance.  The 
Hon.  Joseph  M.  Belford,  who  represented  the  district  irr 
Congress  in  1897-9,  ^"^^  "^^'^^o  is  now  the  surrogate,  came 
to  Suffolk  County  to  teach  in  the  Franklinville  Academy. 
The  intellectual  life  of  Franklinville  and  all  the  neigh- 
boring villages  was  greatly  stimulated  for  two  genera- 
tions by  this  aicademy.  As  the  public  schools  increased  in 


200 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


excellence  and  carried  their  pupils  through  higher  grades, 
the  patronage  of  the  Academy  fell  off,  and  it  closed  in 
1892. 

In  1856  one  acre  for  a  new  site  for  the  Mattituck 
school-house  was  purchased  of  Barnabas  Wines  for 
$275.00.  This  lot  was  next  east  of  the  old  site.  The 
building  was  erected  the  next  year,  the  plans  being  made 


THEL  SCHOOL-HOUSE. 


by  Isaac  R.  Howell,  Jr.,  and  the  contract  for  building 
being  awarded  to  B.  T.  Corwin  for  $591.00.  This,  like 
its  predecessor,  which  was  built  in  1828,  was  a  single- 
room  school-house,  and  served  less  than  ten  years.  In 
1867  it  w'as  raised  and  a  brick  basement  was  built  under 
it.  Thereafter  two  rooms  were  filled,  with  two  teachers. 
This  building  was  occupied  until  1890,  and  stands  some 
distance  back  from  the  highway  on  property  repurchased 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  201 

b\'  the  Wines  family.  The  present  school-house  was  built 
in  1890  on  a  lot  purchased  of  Thomas  E.  Reeve,  a  part 
of  the  Revolutionary  "camp  lot."  In  1897  the  building 
was  raised  a  story  higher,  having  four  commodious 
rooms,  heated  by  steam.  Since  1900  four  teachers  have 
been  employed.  The  faculty  for  the  present  year,  1906-7, 
consists  of  Principal  W'ni.  J.  Sweeney,  assisted  by  Miss 
Saidie  J.  Bailey,  Miss  Margaret  AIcHenry  and  Miss 
/Esther  Leslie  Reeve.  The  principal  for  ten  years  preced- 
ing Mr.  Sweeney  was  ]\Irs.  M.  Alice  Taft,  a  woman  of 
fine  character  and  remarkable  devotion  to  the  interests 
of  the  school.  Ill  health  compelled  her  to  relinquish  the 
heavy  burden,  and  for  a  >ear  she  devoted  her  talents  to  a 
small  school  at  Montauk,  L.  I.  She  is  now  principal  of 
the  public  school  at  Garden  City,  L.  I.  Mrs.  Taft  main- 
tains her  residence  in  Mattituck,  spending-  her  vacations 
in  her  cottage  known  as  "Bide-a-wee." 

Mattituck  has  an  excellent  private  school  conducted 
by  Mrs.  Edward  K.  Morton. 

After  this  little  excursion  into  later  years  to  view  the 
school  as  a  whole,  we  return  to  the  days  before  the  rail- 
road. Between  Mill  Lane  and  Manor  Hill  there  were 
then  about  as  many  houses  as  today.  West  of  Mill  Lane 
there  were  not  nearly  so  many  as  now.  Calvin  Moore, 
the  father  of  Miss  Emily  Moore,  the  present  occupant, 
lived  in  the  house  at  the  head  of  Manor  Hill.  Luther  G. 
Tuthill's  house  was  built  later,  by  his  father,  Chauncey 
W.  Where  George  I.  Tuthill's  new  house  stands  was 
the  home  of  his  grandfather,  Jesse  Hallock  Tuthill.  On 
the  south  side  of  the  road,  a  little  west  of  Elijah's  Lane, 
lived  the  Widow  Gardiner.  On  Gardiner's  Neck,  reached 
bv  a  long  lane,  now  Locust  street,  was  the  home  of  Geo, 


202  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

L.  Conklin,  who  represented  the  district  in  the  State  As- 
sembly in  1827,  1831  and  1835.  Jesse  Tuthill,  father  of 
Capt,  Ira  and  Jesse  Hallock,  and  of  Jacob  H,  and  WilHani 
H.,  lived  in  an  old  house,  no  longer  standing,  not  far  east 
of  the  Torrey  residence.  North  of  the  road  dwelt  Barna- 
bas Tuthill  at  George  T.  Bergen's,  J.  Smith  Tuthill  at 
Herbert  Cory's,  John  Tuthill  at  Alvah  Mulford's,  and  Al- 
bert Tuthill  at  La  Mont  Gould's.  Capt.  Ira  Tuthill,  as 
stated  above,  dwelt  where  his  son,  Philip  W.,  succeeds 
him,  kept  the  store,  and  sailed  the  sloop  "Atalanta"  week- 
ly between  Xew  Suffolk  and  New  York.  East  of  Capt. 
Ira  Tuthill's  house,  by  the  old  well  that  still  remains  near 
the  road,  stood  a  dwelling-house. 

On  the  farm  now  owned  by  James  J.  Kirkup  dwelt 
John  Worth,  whose  father,  James,*  had  purchased  the 
property  many  years  before.  In  the  northwest  corner  of 
the  Worth  farm  stood  an  old  house  that  had  formerly  be- 
longed to  Thomas  Wickham,  grandfather  of  Charles  W. 
It  had  more  recently  been  in  possession  of  John  Franks 
Horton,  occupied  by  him  before  he  moved  to  the  house 
on  the  hill.  In  the  old  Corwin  house  dwelt  John  Corwin,. 
the  last  of  the  name  to  occupy  it.  The  large  farm,  with 
the  exception  of  the  old  house  and  less  than  an  acre  about 
it,  had  passed  from  the  Corwin  name.  Josiah  Lupton 
had  purchased  the  lower  part,  extending  from  the  high- 
W'ay  to  the  Oregon  Road,  in  1832,  and  dwelt  in  the  house 
now  of  Henry  L.  Davis.     The  house  lately  occupied  by 


*James  Worth  was  son  of  Jonathan  Worth,  of  Wading  River. 
Jonathan  was  a  brother  of  Capt.  Seth  Worth,  who  was  buried 
at  Mattituck  in  1781.  John,  the  son  of  James,  sold  this  place- 
and  purchased  the  property  now  owned  by  his  daughter,  Mrs. 
Alice  H.  Worth  Boutcher.  John's  widow,  Mrs.  Nancy  (Havens> 
Worth,  lives  with  her  daughter. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  203 

Harry  B.  Lupton  was  built  by  Edmund,  son  of  Josiah  and 
father  of  Frank  M.,  John  M.  and  Harry  B.  Jas.  11. 
Wines  lives  where  his  father,  Barnabas,  then  dwelt. 

North  of  the  lake,  between  it  and  the  highway,  dwelt 
John  Franks  Horton,  Esquire,  Gershom  Howell  and  Ely- 
mas  Reeve.  Gershom  Howell,  carpenter,  father  of  Joel 
C.  Howell,  lived  in  the  old  house  with  its  back  to  the  road^ 
now  occupied  by  Edward  Worthington,  which  is  often 
called  "the  Elymas  Reeve  house."  Elymas  Reeve,  before 
the  time  of  the  railroad,  lived  considerably  further  west, 
in  the  old  Obadiah  Hudson  house,  not  far  from  George 
H.  Fischer's  ice  house.  In  1849  Gershom  Howell  sold  to 
Parthenia  Reeve,  daughter  of  Elymas,  and  after  that 
Elymas  moved  to  the  house  that  commonly  bears  his 
name. 

From  very  early  times  these  houses  had  stood  near 
the  lake.  Between  them,  also,  a  house  or  two  stood  in 
ancient  times,  and  another  east  of  Gershom  Howell's. 
Presumably  David  Terry  owned  Mrs.  Rosalie  (Terry) 
Randolph's  farm*  before  1710,  running  right  through  to 
the  lake.  When  the  new  highway  was  laid  out,  in  1710, 
he  seized  the  opportunity  to  sell  small  lots  along  the  vil- 
lage street,  and  devoted  to  that  purpose  a  narrow  strip  of 
land,  about  six  rods  wide,  along  the  south  side  of  the 
highway.  That  strip  continues  to  this  day  separate  from 
the  land  and  swamp  back  of  it,  between  it  and  the  lake. 
On  this  strip  several  houses  were  built ;  the  old  house 
which  contemptuously  turns  its  face  from  the  road  to  front 

*In  1776  John  Wickham  sells  5  acres  in  northern  part  of  this 
Farm  to  John  Benjamin,  "at  north  end  of  farm  bought  of  David 
Terry.  In  1762  David  Terry  sells  ten  acres  across  the  highway 
next  to  "the  fresh  pond  or  Mattituk  pond"  to  Henry  Pike,  Jr., 
miller  and  carpenter. 


204  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

the  sunny  south  being  the  only  one  still  standing.  The 
fact  that  other  houses  stood  near,  and  changed  hands 
often,  appears  from  the  north  bounds  of  the  lot  back  of 
them,  as  given  in  many  deeds  from  1762  to  1887.  In 
1762  Ebenezer  Webb,  Sr.,*  Ebenezer  Webb,  Jr.,  and  John 
Case  occupied  this  strip.  In  1788  it  appears  that  the  John 
Case  lot  occupying  the  western  end  of  the  strip,  opposite 
to  Mrs.  Randolph's  house,  was  bounded  on  the  west  by 
Obadiah  Hudson  and  on  the  east  by  John  Horton.  John 
Horton  then  seems  to  have  owned  the  old  house  that  faces 
the  south  in  1788  and  to  have  succeeded  Ebenezer  Webb 
in  its  possession.  In  1788  the  John  Case  lot  was  bought 
by  the  trustees  of  the  church  bank,  and  appears  to  have 
been  sold  by  them  to  Wells  Ely,f  who  owned  it  in  1805- 
1825.  In  1839  it  was  in  possession  of  Thos.  A.  Overton,^ 
who  owned  the  opposite  farm,  north  of  the  highway,  and 
who  sold  this  lot  with  the  farm  in  that  year  to  Samuel 
Brown.  Since  then  the  lot  has  been  conveyed  to  each  of 
the  successive  owners  of  the  farm,  and  now  belongs  to 
Mrs.  Randolph.  The  old  house  still  standing,  that  be- 
longed to  Ebenezer  Webb  in  1762  and  to  John  Horton  in 
1788,  belonged  to  Richard  Howell  in  1816,  and  to  Ger- 
shom  Howell  §  in  1839  and  until  1849,  when  he  sold  to 


♦Ebenezer  Webb  married  Sarah  Case  in  1724  (Salmon  Rec- 
ord). Tiie  family  name  appears  frequently  in  the  Church 
Records  from  their  beginning  in  1751  to  1809. 

tWells  Ely's  daughter  Sophia  married  Irad  Reeve.  About 
1816-1828  Wells  Ely  owned  a  two-acre  lot  on  the  North  Road, 
about  midway  in  David  Jenkins'  farm. 

JThomas  A.  Overton  was  son-in-law  of  Maj.  Isaac  Reeve, 
marrying  his  daughter,  Charlotte  Augusta. 

§Gershom  Howell,  carpenter,  father  of  Joel  C,  married 
Lydia,  daughter  of  Geo.  L.  Conlin.  Gershom  was  brother  of 
1st  Isaac  Reeve  Howell  and  son  of  Reeve  and  Bathsheba  Clark 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  205 

Parthenia  Reeve,  daughter  of  Elymas.  Still  east  of  that 
house  was  a  house  on  a  quarter  acre  lot  that  passed  from 
Benjamin  and  Mary  Goldsmith,  in  1835,  to  Isaiah  Ben- 
jamin. This  may  have  been  one  of  the  Ebenezer  Webb 
houses  of  1762,  and  appears  to  have  been  long  ago  the 
"pest  house"  of  which  the  oldest  inhabitants  preserve  the 
tradition,  to  which  the  unfortunate  victims  of  small-pox, 
in  the  days  before  vaccination,  went  at  the  challenge  of 
the  dread  disease  and  fought  their  grim  fight. 

J.  Franks  Horton's  house  on  the  hill,  overlooking  the 
lake,  doubtless  marked  the  site  of  the  dwelling  of  a  north 
division  owner  before  1710.  Part  of  the  fifteen  or  six- 
teen acres  connected  with  it  belonged  to  Henry  Pike,  who 
died  in  1768,  aged  75.  The  western  part,  ten  acres,  was 
acquired  by  Henry  Pike,  Jr.,  in  1762,  from  David  Terry. 
Henry  Pike,  Jr.,  died  in  possession  of  the  house  and  six- 
teen acres  in  1780.  In  1816  Deacon  John  Reeve  was  in 
possession  and  borrowed  money  upon  the  property.  In 
1805  Wm.  H.  Pike,  son  of  2d  Henry,  had  moved  from  the 
house  on  the  hill  to  the  present  Pike  Farm,  purchasing  it 
from  Deacon  John  and  his  wife,  Keziah.  Probably  at  the 
same  time  the  old  Pike  place  passed  to  Deacon  John.  He 
lost  it  under  the  mortgage,  and  a  few  years  later  it  was  in 
possession  of  the  Goldsmiths.  Lewis  Goldsmith  sold  it  in 
1835  to  George  Benjamin.  Since  then  it  has  changed 
hands  often.  It  was  purchased  by  the  present  owner, 
Charles  W.  Wickham,  in  1887. 

Elder  John  Franks  Horton,  shoemaker,  storekeeper 
and  justice  of  the  peace,  was  a  prominent,  highly  re- 
spected man  in  the  community  for  many  years,  until  his 

Howell.  Reeve  was  son  of  John,  son  of  John,  son  of  Richard, 
the  son-in-law  of  1st  William  Hallock. 


2o6  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

<Ieath  in  1884,  at  the  age  of  71.  His  first  wife  was  Phebe 
Maria  Reeve,  and  his  second,  Ila  Lupton,  daughter  of 
Josiah.  Like  the  other  Hortons  of  Mattituck,  he  was  a 
descendant  of  Captain  Jonathan,  youngest  son  of  ist  Bar- 
nabas. Captain  Jonathan's  son.  Deacon  James  (1694- 
1762),  was  the  father  of  Captain  Barnabas,  who  married, 
about  1742,  Susanna  Bailey.  From  Capt.  Barnabas  and 
Susanna  Bailey  all  the  Mattituck  Hortons  come.  Capt. 
Barnabas  in  his  will,  1787,  left  his  extensive  lands  in 
Southold  to  his  sons,  Benjamin  and  Gilbert,  and  to  the 
widow  of  his  eldest  son,  Barnabas.  To  his  sons,  James 
and  Jonathan,  he  left  no  land,  but  £84  and  iioo  respec- 
tively. The  younger,  Jonathan,  apparently  invested  his 
money  in  Mattituck  property,  between  the  church  on  the 
east  and  the  canoe  path  on  the  west.  He  became  Deacon 
Jonathan  Horton.  He  married,  in  1786,  Mary  Hallock, 
a  daughter  of  James  and  Mary  (Post)  Hallock,  and  a 
sister  of  the  James  Hallock  who  married  Amelia  Gold- 
smith. His  son,  Barnabas  Bailey,  married  Hannah,  eldest 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Joanna  (Corwin)  Reeve.  Dea- 
con Jonathan's  brother,  James,  was  the  grandfather  of 
'Squire  John  Franks  and  Capt.  James  Edwin,  who  were 
sons  of  James'  son.  Hector  G. 

Barnabas,  eldest  son  of  Capt.  Barnabas  and  Susanna 
(Bailey)  Horton,  was  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Frank  M. 
Lupton.  Col.  Benjamin,  second  son,  married  as  his  second 
wife.  Harmony,  daughter  of  James  and  Anna  (Wines) 
Reeve.  These  were  grandparents  of  Mrs.  Mehetable 
(Horton)  Dayton,  of  Bay  View.  The  old  Obadiah  Hud- 
son house,  south  of  the  road,  west  of  Geo.  H.  Fischer's 
ice  house,  was  the  home  of  Elymas  Reeve,  familiarly 
known  as  "Uncle  Lymas."    In  a  deed  of  1825,  "Reuben,  a 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  20/ 

free  man  of  colour,"  sells  to  Elymas  Reeve,  his  son,  this 
house  with  three  and  one-half  acres,  bounded  north  by 
the  highway,  south  by  the  pond,  east  by  Wells  Ely  and 
Lewis  Conkling,  Jr.,  and  west  by  James  Reeve.  How 
the  lot  came  into  Reuben's  possession  is  not  known.  In 
1805  it  was  owned  by  Timothy  Reeve,*  shoemaker,  as 
appears  from  a  mortgage  made  in  that  year  and  satisfied 
in  1807.  "Uncle  Lymas"  was  a  remarkable  man,  highly 
respected  by  the  people  during  his  forty-five  years  of  resi- 
dence in  Mattituck.  He  was  born  a  slave  in  a  branch  of 
the  Reeve  family  living  in  Cutchogue.  His  son  writes 
that  his  father  was  brought  up  "by  a  Mrs.  Betty  Reeve, 
of  Cutchogue,"  and  that  she  deeded  him  "a.  small  parcel 
of  ground."  This  definitely  fixes  Elymas  as  the  "negro 
man  Limas,"  freed  by  the  Widow  Elizabeth  Reeve  in 
1813,  and  to  whom  by  her  will,  proved  1820,  she  left  "one 
acre  of  land  lying  at  a  place  called  shell  bank,"  in  Cut- 
chogue. The  man  freed  in  1813  was  "aged  about  30,"  so 
Elymas  was  about  eighty-seven  years  of  age  at  his  death, 
in  1870.  He  was  a  man  of  large  frame  and  great  physi- 
cal strength,  reputed  to  be  the  most  powerful  man  in  the 
town.  He  was  a  man  of  vigorous  mind.  His  education 
was,  of  course,  limited,  but  he  could  read  and  write  and 
was  wonderfully  versed  in  the  Scriptures.  In  early  life 
he  became  a  communicant  in  the  Cutchogue  Presbyterian 
Church.     He  held  his  membership  there  to  the  end.  and 


*Timothy  Reeve  was  a  son  of  4th  James  and  Anna  (Wines) 
Reeve  and  brother  of  5th  James,  Rev.  Nathaniel,  Deacon  John 
and  Samuel.  The  latter  part  of  his  life  was  spent  in  New 
York  City,  where  he  served  on  the  police  force.  His  son,  Tim- 
othy Wines  Reeve,  kept  a  well-known  old  book  store  in  New 
York  and  was  the  first  husband  of  the  late  Mrs.  Jas.  Richard 
Hallock. 


ELYMAS   REEVE. 


1 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  2O9 

Avas  buried  in  the  old  cemetery  of  Cutchogue.  His  piety 
was  deep,  and  his  Hfe  that  of  a  consistent  Christian.  He 
was  conspicuous  as  a  man  of  faith  and  prayer,  and  in  pub- 
lic prayer  he  exhibited  extraordinary  depth  of  feeling  and 
power  of  expression.  All  who  remember  him  speak  of 
him  in  terms  of  admiration  and  affection.  He  and  his 
wife,  Hagar,  reared  in  Mattituck  a  family  of  four  sons 
and  four  daughters.  His  youngest  son  is  now  the  Rev. 
John  B.  Reeve,  D.  D.,  pastor  of  the  Lombard  Street 
Presbyterian  Church,  of  Philadelphia,  a  church  of  more 
than  400  members.  He  is  a  graduate  of  Columbia  Uni- 
versity and  of  Union  Theological  Seminary,  and  was  for 
some  years  a  professor  in  Howard  University,  D.  C. 
Mrs.  Josephine  (Silone)  Yates,  of  Kansas  City,  Mo., 
daughter  of  Elymas  Reeve's  daughter  Parthenia,  is  a 
woman  of  culture,  an  accomplished  lecturer,  and  promi- 
nent as  a  representative  of  the  colored  section  in  the  Na- 
tional Association  of  Women's  Clubs. 

In  the  latter  part  of  his  life  Elymas  lived  in  the  old 
house  with  its  back  to  the  road.  This  property,  together 
with  the  three  and  one-half  acres  which  came  to  him 
from  his  father,  was  sold  by  his  daughters,  some  years 
after  his  death,  to  the  late  Irad  Gildersleeve,  and  is  now 
in  the  possession  of  Geo.  H.  Fischer. 

North  of  the  highway,  west  of  Mill  Lane,  were  the 
houses  of  large  land  owners :  Isaiah  Benjamin,  Samuel 
Brown,  James  Wickham  Reeve,  William  H.  Pike  and  his 
son,  Henry,  and  the  Widow  Elmira  Reeve.  South  of  the 
highway  there  was  not  a  house  standing,  in  the  forties, 
between  Elymas  Reeve's  and  the  house  now  of  Joel  C, 
Howell.  The  highway  now  known  as  Reeve  Place  was 
then  a  private  lane  leading  through  the  old  Revolution- 


210  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

ary  "camp  lot"  to  the  farms  of  Edward  and  Irad  Reeve. 
In  wliat  is  now  the  open  corner  lot  of  Thomas  E,  Reeve 
was  the  house  of  Mr.  Reeve's  grandmother,  the  Widow 
Elizabeth  Reeve.  Her  house  was  afterwards  taken  down 
and  reconstructed  by  Thomas  Hallock  on  the  corner  of 
the  Xorth  Road  and  Pacific  Street,  and  is  the  property 
of  J.  Wickham  Reeve.  The  corner  lot  was  owned  a 
hundred  years  ago  by  John  Clark,  3d,*  shoemaker.  In 
1807  it  was  described  as  "Two  acres  of  land,  together 
with  a  good  dwelling  House  and  three  out-houses,  with  a 
handsome  Orchard  containing  about  one  acre,  or  one-half 
of  the  aforesaid  premises,  also  a  variety  of  other  good 
fruit  trees."  This  interesting  description  is  given  in  a 
mortgage  whereby  the  owner  borrowed  sixty  dollars  on 
the  lot.  Today  two  acres  at  the  corner  would  be  ex- 
cellent security  for  fifty  times  that  amount. 

The  house  'of  John  C.  Wells,  across  the  highway 
from  this  lot,  was  not  built  until  1853,  when  Andrew 
Gildersleeve  bought  the  land  from  James  Shirley  and 
erected  his  dwelling  house  and  store.  East  of  that,  on  the 
Glenwood  property,  stood  the  Barker  house,  removed  by 
John  Odell  some  twenty  years  later  to  its  present  location 
on  Pike  Street.  The  Barker  house  was  then  owned  by 
Luther  Reeve,  and  in  its  upper  floor  a  private  school  was 
kept.  Luther  Reeve  died  in  1842,  and  twelve  years  later 
his  widow,  Elmyra  Reeve,  sold  the  house  to  Barnabas 
Pike.  In  the  Joel  Howell  house  dwelt  Bethiah  Pike,  an 
unmarried  daughter  of  Amasa. 

*The  John  Clark,  3d,  who  owned  the  corner  lot,  married 
Lydia  Horton,  daughter  of  Deacon  Jonathan,  and  was  the 
father  of  Benjamin  H.,  Silas  H.,  Mary  H.  (Mrs.  John  Worth) 
and  William.  He  was  of  a  different  branch  of  the  Clark  family 
from  John,  the  Revolutionary  soldier  mentioned  in  Chapter  V. 


A    HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


211 


On  the  road  to  Riverhead  there  were  few  houses 
sixty-live  years  ago.  The  old  Horton  house,  south  of  the 
burying  ground,  had  long  been  there  and  was  then  occu- 
pied by  the  Clarks.  Deacon  John  Reeve's  house  stood 
under  the  big  oak  tree  south  of  the  old  private  lane  that 
is  now  Xew  Suffolk  Avenue.     Deacon  John  had  origin- 


THE  HOUSE  OF  FRANK  C.  BARKER,  ESQ. 
Probably  built  by  Amasa  Pike  before  1800. 


ally  inherited  one-half  of  the  great  farm  of  his  father,  4th 
James,  but  he  was  not  successful  financially,  and  grad- 
ually parted  with  his  holdings  until  he  had  nothing  left 
but  the  house  and  garden  around  it  at  the  corner  of  Nev/ 
Suffolk  Avenue.  He  and  his  wife,  Keziah,  daughter  of 
]\Iajor  Silas  and  Bethiah  (Terrell)  Horton,  reared  a 
large  family  of  children,  and  their  descendants  are  widely 


212  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

scattered.  The  house  was  later  moved  and  stands  be- 
tween Cutchogue  and  Peconic,  a  small  hip-roofed  house^ 
across  the  way  from  Mrs.  Eugene  P.  Robinson's  farm- 
house. The  property  south  of  Deacon  John  Reeve's  house 
passed,  as  much  of  his  property  did,  to  the  Hubbards, 
who  were  relatives  of  his  wife,*  and  from  the  Hubbards 
passed,  in  1838,  to  Anson  Reeve.  This  included  the  farm 
now  of  Mrs.  Alice  H.  Worth  Boutcher.  Anson  Reeve 
died  suddenly  in  1854,  at  the  early  age  of  thirty-seven. 
Along  the  road,  south  of  Deacon  John  Reeve's,  was  "a 
small  piece  of  land  called  Vauxhall  Garden,"  reserved  by 
Temperance  and  Deborah  Hubbard  when  they  sold  the 
adjoining  property.  This  garden  lay  in  the  low  land  now 
belonging  to  Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Chapman,  near  to  the  Bay 
Avenue. 

On  the  Horton's  Neck  farm,  now  the  place  of  Johit 
Hiising,  dwelt  George  Benjamin,  youngest  son  of  Isaiah, 
and  brother  of  Austin  W.,  John,  Mrs.  Sarah  Goldsmith,. 
Mrs.  Mary  Ann  Reeve,  Mrs.  Harmony  Tuthill,  and  Mrs. 
Hannah  Tuthill.  Next  beyond  stood  the  old  house  near 
Horton's  Creek,  the  property  now  of  Mrs.  John  C.  Wells. 
In  that  house  a  hundred  years  ago  lived  Alexander  Bush- 
nell,  a  school-teacher,  whose  wife  was  Sarah  Wells, 
daughter  of  Craavit  and  Sarah  (Reeve)  Wells.  Two  of 
the  Bushnell  children  l:e  buried  in  Mattituck.  Descend- 
ants of  the  family  reside  at  Morristown,  N.  J. 

On  the  North  Road,  beyond  the  church  and  the 
hotel,  there  were  few  houses.  The  Methodist  Episcopal 
and  the  Protestant  Episcopal  churches  were  not  yet  es- 
tablished in  Mattituck.    On  the  site  of  Postmaster  Henry 

*Barnabas  Terrell's  daughter  Mary  married  John  Hubbard, 
and  his  daughter  Bethiah  married  Maj.  Silas  Horton. 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  21 3 

P.  Tuthill's  house  stood  an  ancient  dwelling,  long  the 
residence  of  Deacon  Nathaniel  Hubbard,  and  belonging  to 
the  Benjamins  in  the  days  just  before  the  coming  of  the 
railroad.  Next  to  it  stood  the  house  of  Daniel  Howell, 
the  old  Donovan  house.  Barnabas  Bailey  Horton  had 
lately  established  himself  on  the  farm  where  his  grand- 
son Geo.  Horton  now  resides.  His  wife  was  Hannah, 
the  eldest  daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Joanna  (Corwin) 
Reeve.  The  ancient  parsonage  property,  now  in  pos- 
isession  of  Rev.  Wm.  A.  Wasson  and  his  brother.  Rev. 
James  B.,  was  owned  by  Thomas  Hallock,  who  then 
dwelt  on  the  south  side  of  the  highway  on  the  farm  now 
occupied  by  David  Jenkins.  East  of  Thomas  Hallock,  on 
the  canning  factory  site,  dwelt  Amaziah  Corwin,  father 
of  Timothy,  Samuel  and  Webb  and  a  daughter  Annie, 
who  became  the  wife  of  Bethuel  Howard.  Daniel  Downs 
dwelt  where  I\Irs.  John  Bergen  now  lives,  and  B.  C.  Kir- 
kup's  home  was  then  the  residence  of  David  B.  Hallock.* 
A  few  rods  east,  in  a  very  old  house  since  torn  down, 
lived  Mr.  Hallock's  mother,  Charity,  the  widow  of 
Ruport  Hallock.  The  old  lady  survived  her  husband 
twenty-two  years,  dying  in  i860  in  her  eighty-fifth  year. 
Benjamin  Goldsmith  Hallock. f  son-in-law  of  David  B., 
resided  in  the  Hallock  homestead  at  the  top  of  the  school- 
house  hill. 

The  place  latel}-  owned  by  Charles  A.  Mayo,  also  be- 


*David  B.  Hallock  was  father  of  Thomas  A.  and  Betsey  A., 
and  son  of  Ruport,  who  was  son  of  3rd  Zerutababel,  son  of  2nd, 
son  of  1st  Zerubbabel,  son  of  Thomas,  son  of  1st  William. 

tBenjamin  Goldsmith  Hallock  married  Betsey  A.,  daughter 
of  David  B.  Hallock.  He  was  son  of  James,  Esq.,  and  Amelia 
Goldsmith,  daughter  of  Rev.  Benjamin.  James  Hallock,  Esq., 
was  son  of  James,  son  of  1st  Zerubbabel. 


7^ 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  21 5 

longed  to  the  Hallocks,  having  been  sold  by  Ruport  Hal- 
lock  to  Tosiah  R.  Alayo  in  1866.  Opposite  to  Aldrich's 
Lane  (formerly  Osman's)  in  the  old  Osman  homestead 
dwelt  Josiah  Mayo,  the  grandfather  of  Charles  A.,  and 
father-in-law  of  the  late  George  W.  Howard.  On  the 
east  side  of  Aldrich's  Lane  lived  Tuthill  Horton,  the 
grandfather  of  Charles  T.  Jones,  the  present  occupant. 
South  of  him  lived  Elisha  x\ldrich,  father  of  Gilbert,  the 
present  occupant,  following  his  father  and  grandfather, 
both  of  whom  bore  the  good  old  name  of  Gershom. 
James  Reeve  lived  where  his  son  Herbert  M.  now  dwells, 
and  Chauncey  P.  Howell  and  George  O.  Hallock  follow 
in  possession  their  fathers,  Sylvester  Howell  and  Benja- 
min Laurens  Hallock.* 

Where  Joseph  W.  Cooper  now  lives  his  grandfather, 
Sylvester  Cooper,  then  resided.  There  was  no  Bergen 
Avenue  at  that  time,  and  Cooper's  private  lane  encircled 
the  place  now  of  Mrs.  James  Lindsey,  reaching  Cox's 
Lane  in  the  depression  known  as  Bramble's  Hollow  from 
one  Bramble,  who  lived  on  an  acre  of  land  on  the  east  of 
Cox's  Lane,  formerly  owned  by  Webb  Corwin  and  now 
part  of  the  Howard  estate.  Bramble  married  the  W^idow 
of  Webb  Corwin,  who  was  Abby  Aldrich,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  G. 

Bethuel  Hallockf  lived  in  the  James  Lindsey  house, 
and  there  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  John  Keyser 
Hallock.  The  residence  now  of  Robert  H.  Lahy  was 
then  the  home  of  Joel  B.  Hallock,  son  of  Bethuel  and 
brother  of  John  K.     "Little  Neck,"  the  place  of  the  late 


♦Benjamin    Laurens   Hallock   was    son    of   Benjamin,   son    of 
Deacon   Richard,    son   of  2d  Zerubbabel. 

*Bethuel  Hallock  was  son  of  Zechariah,  son  of  2d  Zerubbabel. 


2l6  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

Geo.  W,  Howard,  was  then  owned  and  occupied  by  his 
uncle,  Bethuel.  Geo.  W.  Howard's  first  residence  in  Mat- 
tituck  was  the  house  at  the  foot  of  the  hill,  at  the  turn  of 
Cox's  Lane,  now  occupied  by  William  Lahy.  This  was 
originally  the  house  of  Capt.  Gilbert  Davis,  near  the 
mouth  of  the  Creek.  Mr.  Howard  bought  it,  took  it 
apart,  hauled  the  pieces  from  the  Sound,  and  rebuilt  the 
house  in  its  present  position.  Where  Luther  B.  Cox 
lives  was  Lewis  Goldsmith,  grandson  of  the  Rev.  Benja- 
min. Most  of  Cox's  Neck  was  owned  and  occupied  by 
the  sons  of  Richard  Cox,*  who  built  the  mill  in  182 1. 

The  "Oregon"  road  was  opened  as  an  approach  to  the 
tide  mill  from  the  east.  From  Cox's  Lane  in  Peconic  to 
"Tusten"  it  was  laid  out  in  1832,  probably  along  a  farm 


*The  author  is  indebted  to  Mr.  G.  W.  Cocks,  of  Glen  Cove, 
L.  I.,  for  the  following  abstract  of  the  Cox  family  genealogy. 
The  first  of  the  family  on  Long  Island  was  James  Cock,  who 
owned  a  lot  on  the  Town  street  in  Southold  prior  to  1659.  (See 
Southold  Printed  Records,  Vol.  I.,  p.  206,  where  the  name  is 
misprinted  Cook).  He  removed  to  Setauket,  and  in  1662  to 
Oyster  Bay,  where  his  descendants  still  abide  and  whence  his 
great-great-grandson  Richard  came  to  Mattituck.  He  died  in 
1699,  leaving  children,  Mary,  Thomas,  John,  Hannah,  Sarah, 
James,  Henry  and  Martha.  2d  James,  the  third  son,  was  an- 
cestor of  the  Mattituck  family.  He  married  a  daughter  of 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Prior)  Feke,  and  had  five  sons  and  five 
daughters.  The  eldest  son,  Samuel  (1702-1741),  married  Martha 
Ailing,  and  had  two  sons  and  three  daughters.  The  eldest  son, 
2d  Samuel  (1735-1819),  married  Jemima  Powell,  and  had  children, 
Richard,  Mary,  Isaac  and  Elizabeth.  Richard  (1766-1851)  mar- 
ried Abigail,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  (Frost)  Underbill,  a 
descendant  of  the  famous  Capt.  John  Underbill.  Richard  was  a 
farmer  and  drover,  and  frequently  passed  through  Mattituck 
buying  cattle.  The  region  attracted  him,  and  he  bought  the  mill 
site.  Of  the  eight  sons  who  survived  him,  Samuel,  John, 
Stephen  and  Allen  settled  in  Mattituck,  Daniel  at  Oyster  Bay, 
Peter  in  the  town  of  Flushing,  and  Charles  and  Isaac  remained 
on  the  homestead  at  Brookville. 


2l8  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

lane  of  Luther  Hallock's.*  The  name  "Oregon"  was 
appropriately  given  to  the  territory  lying  to  the  northwest 
of  Cntchogue  by  the  Rev,  Jonathan  Huntting,  supplying 
for  a  time  the  Cutchogue  Church.  Similarly  the  territory 
to  the  northeast  of  Cutchogue  was  called  "Canada."  The 
first  settler  on  the  Oregon  road,  east  of  Mill  Lane,  was 
Orrin  T.  Wiggins,  who  with  his  young  wife  settled  there 
in  the  summer  of  1836,  purchasing  their  farm  of  Alanson 
Hallock.  The  nearest  roads  connecting  with  the  main 
highway  were  Cox's  Lane  in  Peconic  and  Mill  Lane  in 
Mattituck.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wiggins  communicated  with 
Cutchogue  by  paths  through  the  woods,  passing  through 
nine  sets  of  bars  and  two  gates.  The  second  house  was 
built  by  Deacon  Ira  B.  Tuthill,  and  ever  since  its  erection 
has  been  occupied  by  Jacob  Tuthill,  his  son,  who  is  the 
oldest  man  in  Mattituck.  The  third  house  was  built  by 
Parker  S.  Moore,  and  is  now  occupied  by  his  son,  Rensse- 
laer Moore.  The  fourth  was  erected  by  Col.  John  Wick- 
ham,  where  Robert  Waters  now  resides. 

The  part  of  the  North  Road  between  Mill  Lane  and 
the  mill  was  occupied  earlier.  Third  Barnabas  Wines 
lived  where  Mrs.  Joshua  Terry  now  lives,  and  in  1736  he 
got  the  highway  commissioners  to  lay  out  a  highway  from 
his  house  eastward  to  the  farm  of  his  son,  4th  Barnabas,, 
who  owned  the  eastern  half  lot  of  the  present  Wines 
farm.f      This    highway    joined    no    other    highway,    but 


*This  Luther  Hallock  was  father  of  Luther  and  Alanson, 
brother  of  John  the  grandfather  of  Silas  H.,  of  Mattituck,  and 
son  of  John  of  Cutchogue,  who  was  son  of  Zebulon  of  Southold, 
who  was  son  of  2d  William,  also  of  Southold,  who  was  son  of 
1st  William,  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Mattituck. 

tThe  Commissioners  of  Highways  describe  the  course  of  this 
road  in  the  following  somewhat  indefinite  terms:     "From  about 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  219 

doubtless  connected  with  the  farm  road  of  the  younger 
Barnabas  Wines.  The  elder  Barnabas  could  not  enjoy  a 
farm  road  of  his  own  to  the  King's  Highway  because  of 
the  interference  of  Long  Creek.  Consequently  he  trav- 
eled east  to  his  son's  land  and  then  south  on  his  son's 
lane,  reaching  the  King's  Highway  not  far  west  of  H.  B. 
Lupton's.  When  Mill  Lane  was  opened  in  1826  it  ran 
north  to  this  old  road  of  ninety  years  before  and  then 
probably  followed  the  ancient  road  to  the  Creek.  Every 
trace  of  the  Wines  Highway  east  of  the  head  of  Mill 
Lane  is  now  obliterated.  On  the  old  road  Benjamin 
Reeve  settled  in  1822,  on  the  north  side.  There  he  was 
followed  by  his  son,  Deacon  Henry,  and  by  his  grandson, 
Thos.  H.,  the  father  of  the  late  County  Judge  Benjamin 
H.  Reeve  and  Justice  of  the  Peace  William  B.  Reeve. 
Not  long  after  Benjamin  Reeve  settled  on  the  North 
Road  Silas  H.  Mapes  and  his  wife,  Hile  Ann  (a  daugh- 
ter of  William  Wines),  located  where  Perry  S.  Robinson 
now  resides. 

From  Cutchogue  to  the  Riverhead  town  line  there  was 
no  public  road  leading  south  from  the  highway,  except 
Aldrich's  Lane,  between  the  north  and  south  roads,  and 
from  Mill  Lane  to  Cox's  Lane  (formerly  Mapes'  and  then 


the  middle  way  of  the  length  of  said  half  lot  (of  4th  Barnabas 
Wines)  near  a  west  course  to  a  black  oak  sappling  in  a  hollow 
in  Gershom  Terry's  land,  and  from  thence  to  a  black  oak  tree 
in  Daniel  Reeve  his  land,  and  from  thence  to  a  sassafras  tree 
on  the  east  side  of  Thomas  Reeve  his  land,  and  so  continuing 
the  same  course  to  a  certain  hollow  near  the  bars  in  the  line 
between  the  said  Capt.  Wines  his  lot  of  land  and  the  said 
Thomas  Reeve  his  land.  The  .said  Highway  laid  out  as  afore- 
said is  in  width  twenty  foot."  If  the  above  mentioned  sassafras 
tree  were  still  living  it  could  be  found  at  the  crossing  of  the 
roads  by  the  houses  of  Perry  S.  Robinson  and  Patrick  Drum. 


220  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

Howell's )  there  was  no  public  road  leading  north.  The 
main  street,  as  it  now  leads  to  the  railroad,  was  not  regu- 
larly opened  until  1853.  In  1728  a  highway  from  the 
main  highway  to  the  creek,  and  extending  ten  rods  on 
either  side  along  the  shore  of  the  creek,  had  been  laid 
out,  but  being  used  only  in  haying  season  and  commonly 
closed  with  gates  and  bars  it  was  forgotten  as  a  public 
road.  In  1818  it  was  reasserted  as  a  public  way,  but 
again  passed  into  oblivion.  It  started  about  where  the 
village  street  now  starts,  but  bore  off  more  to  the  west, 
followed  the  hedge  that  still  remains  back  of  Mrs.  Ruha- 
mah  Hazard's  house  lot,  and  reached  the  shore  of  the 
cove.  The  hickory  tree  at  the  postoffice  corner  marks  the 
line  of  the  old  hedge,  and  the  postoffice  stands  in  the 
middle  of  the  ancient  highway. 

The  road  that  runs  from  George  Brown's  house  north- 
ward was  nothing  more  than  a  private  farm  lane  until 
1868.  The  great  lot  that  lay  across  its  course,  extending 
nearly  to  the  creek  on  the  north,  to  the  hotel  property  on 
the  west  and  to  the  hill  back  of  Bryant  S.  Conklin's  house 
on  the  southeast,  including  the  Eureka  House  property 
and  the  late  Peter  Hazard's  place,  was  the  old  training 
ground.  Here  from  time  immemorial  the  Suffolk  militia- 
men gathered  yearly  for  drill  and  training.  Training 
day  occurred  in  May  and  it  was  even  a  greater  occasion 
than  Town  Meeting  day,  for  it  brought  the  men  from 
thirty  miles  around  to  Mattituck.  It  was  customary  for 
wives  and  daughters  to  accompany  the  men,  and  a  gen- 
eral holiday  was  enjoyed.  Sports  and  games  of  all  sorts 
were  engaged  in,  and  the  social  intercourse  with  distant 
friends  was  like  that  enjoyed  now  at  the  county  fair.  The 
railroad  cut  the  famous  training  field  in  two,  and  only  the 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  221 

oldest  men  in  Mattituck  today  can  remember  the  glorious 
training  days.  The  lot,  which  had  belonged  for  a  cen- 
tury and  a  half  to  the  Reeves,  was  sold  in  1854  to  Samuel 
Brown,  and  was  ere  long  divided  up  into  smaller  parcels 
and  cut  by  streets  to  become  a  part  of  modern  Mattituck. 


CHAPTER  IX. 

MODERN    MATTITUCK. 

The  dividing  line  between  ancient  and  modern  Suf- 
folk County  is  the  Long  Island  Railroad.  The  main  line 
of  the  road  was  completed  to  Greenport  and  opened  for 
traffic  in  July,  1844,  ^^^  ^  i^ew  era  was  inaugurated. 
Before  that  event  all  things  had  continued  as  they  were 
from  the  first  settlement.  Since  that  event  change  has 
been  constant  and  material  progress  has  been  remarka- 
ble. The  tax  lists  of  1844  are  humorous  reading  today. 
The  assessed  valuation  of  the  property  of  Mattituck's 
most  substantial  citizens  seems  ridiculously  small. 

Naturally  there  was  much  opposition  to  the  opening 
of  the  railroad.  When  one  remembers  that  within  re- 
cent years  there  has  been  opposition  to  the  project  of 
opening  a  trolley  line  between  Riverhead  and  Orient 
Point,  there  is  no  wonder  that  there  was  great  opposition 
to  the  steam  railway  sixty-five  years  ago.  Railways  were 
comparatively  new,  having  only  a  little  more  than  four 
thousand  miles  of  track  in  all  the  United  States  in  1844. 
The  most  visionary  could  not  foresee  all  the  benefits  to 
come  and  the  conservative  masses  foresaw  little  but 
slaughtered  cattle  and  burned  forests,  and  vaguely  feared 
that  the  good  old  times  would  be  changed,  and  that  for 
the  worse.  When  the  trains  actually  began  to  annihilate 
time  and  space,  taking  passengers  the  whole  length  of  the 


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A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  223 

island  in  five  or  six  hours,  the  advantages  began  to  ap- 
pear. 

When  the  railroad  was  laid  out  Mattituck  was  fortu- 
nate in  having  the  station  placed  close  to  the  village. 
Many  villages  along  the  railway  lay  from  half  a  mile  to  a 
mile  and  a  half  from  the  track.  The  topography  of  the 
region  made  such  misfortune  im[)ossible  for  Mattituck. 
Before  the  day  of  the  railroad  the  centre  of  population 
was  more  toward  the  east,  but  the  station  was  naturally 
placed  near  the  point  where  the  track  crossed  the  high- 
way and  the  centre  of  business  and  population  was  soon 
fixed  in  that  locality.  The  clustering  together  of  the  sta- 
tion, the  telegraph  office,  the  postofiice,  the  stores,  the 
churches,  the  library  and  its  fine  hall,  the  hotels  and  the 
bank,  gives  Mattituck  a  great  advantage  over  most  neigh- 
boring villages.  Moreover,  the  same  topographical  fea- 
tures that  insured  the  passing  of  the  railroad  near  the  vil- 
lage centre  have  compelled  the  convergence  of  highways 
from  all  directions  at  the  same  centre.  Consequently  the 
village  has  grown  remarkably  in  population  and  impor- 
tance, and  Mattituck  is  one  of  the  most  important  sta- 
tions on  the  main  line  of  the  Long  Island  Railroad. 

The  new  centre  of  population  was  soon  established, 
new  houses  being  erected,  and  the  value  of  property  in 
that  part  of  the  village  increasing.  Some  years  passed 
before  the  community  fully  realized  its  new  opportunities, 
and  before  the  tide  of  improvement  set  in  steadily.  The 
Main  street  to  the  railroad  and  the  street  passing  the 
depot  were  soon  required,  but  for  ten  or  fifteen  years  no 
other  streets  were  opened.  Then  rapid  progress  in  the 
making  of  highways  began.  In  1855  the  road  opposite 
to  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  now  passing  beside 


224  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  and  the  Library  Hall, 
was  opened  as  far  as  the  railway.  In  i860  Pike  Street 
was  dedicated  to  the  public  by  Barnabas  Pike.  In  i860 
also  the  road  from  the  Mill  Road  to  the  Sound,  between 
Thos.  H.  Reeve  and  Perry  S.  Robinson,  was  opened.  In 
the  same  year  Elijah's  Lane  became  a  public  way.  In 
1866  Samuel  Brown,  who  had  bought  the  training  lot  two 
years  before,  staked  out  Love  Lane  and  Maiden  Lane, 
parallel  and  running  from  the  Creek  to  the  railway,  and 
sold  a  number  of  lots  adjoining.  Love  Lane  and  Maiden 
Lane  have  never  been  declared  public  highways.  In  1868 
Thomas  Hallock  opened  and  granted  Pacific  Street  to  the 
public  and  sold  small  lots  on  either  side.  1868  also  saw 
the  Howell  Road  opened,  crossing  Long  Creek  and  con- 
necting with  the  main  highway  through  Henry  D.  Wick- 
ham's  private  road,  next  to  the  house  of  George  Brown, 
This  road  was  laid  out  through  the  enterprising  efforts 
of  the  late  Isaac  R.  Howell^  who  released  much  of  the 
land  through  which  it  ran.  Two  years  later  Capt.  Ells- 
worth Tuthill  secured  the  opening  of  the  road  connect- 
ing Mill  Lane  with  the  Howell  Road,  donating  the  right 
of  way  for  a  large  part  of  its  length.  In  1873  this  road 
was  extended  eastward  from  Mill  Lane  to  form  the  Mid- 
dle Road.  Thus  within  thirty  years  after  the  coming  of 
the  railroad  more  streets  and  roads  were  opened  in  Mat- 
tituck  than  in  two  hundred  years  before. 

The  methods  of  farming  were  within  those  years  revo- 
lutionized. From  time  immemorial  farming  had  been 
carried  on  in  the  old  way.  The  chief  crops  were  hay, 
corn,  wheat,  rye  and  oats.  Each  farmer  raised  such  vege- 
tables as  his  family  required,  and  flax,  which  was  dried 
on  the  slanting  roofs  of  the  barns.    Cattle  and  sheep  were 


REPRESENT ATRT:  3IEN  OF   FIFTY  YEARS  AGO. 
Henry  Pike,  Esq.  Irad  Reeve.  Joseph  P.  Wickham. 

.1.  Smith  TnthiU.  Capt.  Ira  Tuthill. 


226  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

raised  in  large  numbers,  and  large  sections  of  the  farms 
were  devoted  to  pasturage.  On  Cox's  Neck  was  a  "cow 
lot"  that  appears  in  several  deeds.  One  is  surprised  to 
find  that  this  "cow  lot"  comprised  one  hundred  and  fifty 
acres.  The  average  farm  fifty  years  ago  was  much  larger 
than  now,  but  was  much  less  laboriously  worked.  One 
man,  aided  by  his  neighbors  at  harvest  time  and  in  turn 
aiding  them,  was  abundantly  able  to  work  a  large  farm 
alone.  His  son  or  grandson  today  keeps  two  or  three 
hired  men  busy  throughout  the  season  on  a  farm  of  half 
the  size.  In  1796  Deacon  Micah  Howell  provided  in  his 
will  for  the  economical  use  of  his  farm  as  follows :  "Or- 
dering my  farm  to  be  used  in  the  most  prudent  manner, 
with  but  little  plowing,  and  to  cut  no  more  timber  than 
what  is  necessary  for  ye  use  of  the  farm."  This  meant 
that  stock-raising  was  considered  more  advantageous 
than  agriculture,  and  fifty  years  later  a  similar  direction 
for  the  most  prudent  use  of  a  farm  might  have  been 
given.  The  older  men  today  remember  when  a  com- 
paratively small  part  of  farm-land  around  Mattituck  was 
cleared  and  thick  woods  stood  where  now  lie  most  pro- 
ductive fields.  The  northern  half  of  Mill  Lane  ran 
through  the  woods  and  much  of  the  "northside"  was 
wooded. 

Quick  and  reliable  communication  with  the  city 
markets  invited  the  farmers  to  supply  vegetables  for  the 
tables  of  the  people  of  New  York  and  Brooklyn.  With 
the  marvelous  increase  of  urban  population  the  market 
became  more  and  more  inviting.  When  the  Long  Island 
Railroad  first  connected  Mattituck  with  Brooklyn,  the 
population  of  New  York  City  was  370,000,  and  the  popu- 
la'iion  of  Brooklyn  was  only  60,000.     Fifteen  years  later. 


A    HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


227 


in  i860,  New  York's  population  had  niore  than  doubled, 
and  Brooklyn's  had  increased  fourfold,  the  two  cities 
holding  more  than  a  million  people  that  must  be  fed. 
Even  this  wonderful  increase  in  population  does  not  give 
an  adequate  idea  of  the  rapid  increase  in  the  demands  of 
the  city  market,  for  the  increasing  wealth  and  purchasing 
power  of  the  cities  advanced  even  more  rapidly  than  the 


RESIDENCE   OF  CAPT.   ELLSWORTH  TUTHILL  AND  HIS 
SON,   NATHANIEL  S.  TUTHILL. 

population.  Such  a  tempting  market  necessarily  led  the 
farmers  of  eastern  Long  Island  to  turn  their  attention 
less  to  the  old  standard  crops  and  more  to  the  cultivation 
•of  vegetables  for  city  consumption.  It  was  then  found 
that  the  soil  and  climatic  conditions  of  eastern  Suffolk 
County  afforded  peculiar  and  unsuspected  adaptability  to 
the  raising  of  certain  vegetables,  such  as  potatoes,  aspar- 


228  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

agus  and  cauliflower.  The  fanners  who  had  formerly 
raised  only  enough  potatoes  for  their  own  consumption 
began  to  plant  potatoes  where  they  had  formerly  raised 
corn  and  wheat.  It  was  soon  found  that  Long  Island 
potatoes  were  the  finest  that  reached  the  New  York 
market  and  commanded  the  highest  price.  Woodland 
was  cleared  and  the  acreage  of  potatoes  was  rapidly  in- 
creased. The  conditions  were  also  found  most  favorable 
for  asparagus.  This  gave  the  farmers  a  profitable  early 
harvest  in  the  months  of  May  and  June,  and  cauliflower, 
to  which  the  soil  showed  peculiar  adaptation  even  more 
remarkable,  afforded  a  late  fall  harvest  of  great  value. 
Even  later  than  this  is  the  harvest  of  Brussels  sprouts,, 
the  cutting  of  which  runs  far  into  the  winter  and  some- 
times throughout  the  winter.  In  addition  to  these  chief 
crops  all  kinds  of  market  vegetables  are  raised  with  profit. 
The  soil  and  climate  have  also  been  found  exceptionally 
well  suited  to  the  production  of  cabbage  seed,  which  af- 
fords a  profitable  crop. 

Until  about  thirty-five  years  ago  the  principal  fertiliz- 
ing material  used  by  the  farmers  about  Peconic  Bay  was 
in  the  shape  of  fish  spread  over  the  land.  The  fish  known 
as  menhaden,  or  moss-bunker,  used  to  come  into  the  bay 
in  immense  shoals.  For  the  purpose  of  catching  these 
large  seines  were  used,  from  half  a  mile  to  a  mile  in 
length.  These  seines  were  owned  in  shares,  or  rights, 
usually  ten  rights  to  a  seine.  Some  owned  whole  rights 
and  some  were  content  with  half  rights.  They  shared  the 
fish  caught  in  proportion  to  their  rights  in  the  outfit. 
About  the  beginning  of  May  the  fishing  began.  Ten  men 
manned  a  seine,  two  or  three  old  and  experienced  fisher- 
men being  assisted  by  younger  men  from  the  neighboring 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  229 

farms.  There  was  hard  work  in  it,  but  much  pleasure 
also.  On  the  beach  at  the  place  of  fishing  was  a  house 
or  shanty  in  which  the  fishermen  camped  out  for  a  week 
At  a  time,  returning  home  for  Sundays  and  going  again 
to  the  beach  for  three  or  four  and  sometimes  as  many  as 
six  weeks.  The  long  seines  could  be  hauled  in  only  once 
or  twice  a  day.  They  were  drawn  in  by  a  horse  circling 
about  a  large  windlass.  There  were  posts  along  the 
beach,  at  convenient  distances,  and  the  windlass,  or 
■"whirl,"  was  shifted  from  one  to  another  of  these  as  de- 
sired. The  principal  fishing  places  near  Mattituck  were 
■"the  cove"  in  Cutchogue  harbor,  on  the  western  side  of 
Nassau  Point,  and  on  the  beach  between  Reeve's  Creek 
and  Horton's  Creek.  The  proverbial  fisherman's  luck 
obtained.  Sometimes  the  hauls  were  very  small  and 
sometimes  there  was  a  great  draft  of  more  than  a  million 
fishes.  There  is  a  tradition  of  a  phenomenal  catch,  many 
years  ago,  of  two  and  a  half  millions  of  fish  at  one  haul. 
Counting  the  fish  was  laborious  and  the  custom  was  es- 
tablished of  calculating  the  number  roughly  by  measuring 
the  wagons  in  which  they  were  hauled  away.  Twenty 
cubic  inches  were  allowed  for  a  fish  and  the  sides  of  the 
Avagons  were  marked  for  a  thousand,  fifteen  hundred,  two 
thousand  fish,  and  so  on.  Only  light  loads  could  be 
hauled  over  the  sandy  beach.  These  were  carted  to  the 
upland  at  some  near  and  convenient  place  and  from  there 
transported  to  the  farms  in  larger  loads  of  three  or  four 
thousand  fish.  The  fish  were  spread  over  the  fields  lav- 
ishly, ten  or  fifteen  thousand  to  the  acre.  When  more 
were  secured  than  could  be  used  at  the  time,  they  were  laid 
down  in  long  rows  and  covered  with  earth  by  running  a 
plow  along  both  sides.    These  reserve  rows  aft'orded  rich 


230 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


and  ripe  fertilizer  when  needed.  The  fish  made  rich  fields 
and  fine  crops.  It  is  needless  to  say  they  did  not  smell 
good.  Before  the  fish  were  plowed  under — and  for  the 
best  results  they  must  not  be  plowed  under  too  soon — the 
atmosphere  was  redolent  of  their  perfume  from  River- 
head  to  Orient  Point.     Through-passengers  on  the  rail- 


"MO-MO-WETA,"  SUMMER  COTTAGE  OF 
FRANK  M.  LUPTON. 


road  and  strangers  in  the  villages  did  not  enjoy  it,  but  the 
inhabitants  had  little  sympathy  with  their  expressions  of 
disgust.  The  smell  signified  rich  crops  and  increasing 
wealth. 

The  menhaden  long  since  ceased  to  enter  Peconic 
Bay  in  great  numbers  except  in  rare  and  infrequent  years. 
Many  persons  suppose  this  is  because  they  have  beeni 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  23 1 

driven  away  from  these  shores  by  the  numerous  fishing 
steamers  of  the  companies  engaged  in  making  commer- 
cial fertihzers.  Occasionally  large  schools  of  the  fish  are 
caught  now  in  the  bay,  and  they  are  used  to  some  extent 
on  the  farms,  but  the  rules  of  the  modern  board  of  health 
require  them  to  be  plowed  under  promptly.  \^ast  amounts 
of  commercial  fertilizer  are  now  used.  In  the  olden 
time,  not  only  were  the  moss-bunkers  used  on  the  land, 
but  the  farmers  kept  much  more  live  stock  than  now, 
and  their  barn-yard  manure  was  much  more  considerable. 
It  is  estimated  that  Suffolk  County  consumes  more  than 
one-half  of  all  the  commercial  fertilizer  used  in  the  State. 
Under  the  encouragement  of  this  demand  the  Hallock  & 
Duryee  Fertilizer  Company,  of  Mattituck,  was  incor- 
porated in  1890,  with  a  capital  of  $15,000.00.  The  seven 
trustees  were  Geo.  W.  Cooper,  Chas.  W.  Wickham,  P. 
Harvey  Duryee,  Otto  P.  Hallock,  Jas.  L.  Reeve,  D.  Edgar 
Anthony  and  Samuel  H.  Brown.  The  fertilizer  factory 
was  built  near  the  railroad,  a  half  mile  west  of  the  village 
centre,  and  for  some  years  a  large  business  was  carried 
on,  but  successful  competition  with  the  great  combina- 
tions of  capital  engaged  in  the  business  proved  hopeless^ 
and  the  company  wound  up  its  affairs.  The  factory  was 
purchased  recently  by  the  American  Fisheries  Company, 
and  is  now  used  as  a  storehouse,  from  which  hundreds  of 
tons  of  fertilizers  are  supplied  annually  to  the  farmers  of 
the  region.  The  farmers  today  spend  for  the  one  item  of 
fertilizer  several  times  as  much  money  as  all  the  product 
of  the  fields  was  worth  a  generation  ago,  and  one  suc- 
cessful farmer  of  the  present  generation  handles  more 
money  than  all  his  fathers  combined  from  the  settlement 
of  the  town. 


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A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


An  amusing-  story  is  told  by  Mr.  Joseph  Wells,  of 
Laurel,  of  a  newly-marriecl  couple  who,  in  his  youth, 
some  seventy  years  ago,  displayed  great  extravagance  in 
housekeeping.  A  small  house  was  built  for  the  young 
people  on  the  corner  of  the  great  farm,  and  they  did  their 
share  in  the  prudent  use  of  the  land.  At  the  end  of  the 
first  year  it  was  found  that  the  young  man  and  his  wife 


SUMMER  COTTAGE  OF  JUDGE  HENRY  F.  HAGGERTY. 


had  actually  expended  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  in 
cash.  Such  extravagance  was  almost  unparalleled  and 
was  sadly  deprecated.  It  seemed  to  forebode  financial 
ruin.  One  hundred  dollars  would  hardly  suffice  for  the 
young  farmer's  wedding  trip  now.  A  comparison  of  the 
value  of  farm  land  then  and  now  exhibits  strikingly  the 
advance  in  wealth.     In  1830  150  acres  of  land  in  "Ore- 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  233 

■g-on"  were  sold  for  $3,000.00,  twenty  dollars  an  acre.  To- 
day this  property  is  held  at  two  hundred  dollars  an  acre. 
Even  more  surprising  is  the  purchase  in  1838,  of  eighty 
acres,  comprising  the  farms  now  of  Peter  Wyckofif  and 
W.  V.  Duryee,  for  $300.00,  or  less  than  four  dollars  an 
acre.  The  land  was  then  unimproved,  A  few  years  later 
it  was  sold  in  two  parcels  for  $1,050.00.  In  i860  this  land 
was  worth  nearly  $100.00  per  acre,  and  now  it  is  worth 
at  least  $200.00  per  acre. 

The  increase  in  the  value  of  land  in  the  heart  of  the 
village  has  been  even  more  striking.  In  the  days  before 
the  railroad  there  was  not  much  selling  of  village  lots, 
but  fifty  dollars  an  acre  would  have  been  a  good  price. 
Nine  or  ten  years  after  the  opening  of  the  railway  the 
Mattituck  real  estate  market  was  active,  and  property  on 
the  highway  in  small  lots  sold  for  $200.00  per  acre.  Lots 
north  of  the  railway  were  not  worth  half  so  much.  In 
another  ten  years,  about  1864,  property  near  the  village 
•centre  was  worth  $300.00  an  acre.  From  then  onward 
an  increase  of  nearly  fifty  per  cent,  for  each  decade  has 
been  maintained.  In  1900  the  acre  of  land  on  which  the 
schoolhouse  stands  was  bought  for  $1,000.00  and  is  now 
probably  worth  $1,500  without  the  building. 

Mattituck  has  now  three  hotels,  open  the  year  round, 
and  many  summer  boarding  houses,  large  and  small.  It 
has  also  numerous  stores  and  business  institutions,  but 
probably  not  so  many  distinct  industries  as  many  years 
ago.  Before  transportation  was  easy  and  before  com- 
binations of  capital  had  gotten  control  of  many  lines  of 
business,  various  trades  were  represented  in  Mattituck. 
Today  Mattituck,  as  every  thriving  village,  has  its  black- 
■smiths,  wheelwrights,  carpenters,  masons,  painters,  shoe- 


234  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

maker  and  saddler;  years  ago  it  had  all  these  and  coop- 
ers, weavers  and  tanners  as  well.  Now  the  village  shoe- 
maker does  little  but  repair  work;  then  he  made  most  of 
the  shoes  for  the  community ;  the  saddler  made  the  har- 
ness and  saddles,  and  the  wheelwright  made  the  wagons^ 
The  blacksmith  made  the  nails,  andirons,  flat-irons, 
shovels  and  all  manner  of  implements  for  the  household 
and  the  farm.  The  carpenters  felled  the  trees,  squared 
the  timbers,  sawed  the  boards,  made  doors,'  sashes  and  all 
that  went  to  make  up  the  houses  and  barns.  The  coopers 
made  not  only  casks  and  barrels,  but  before  the  days  of 
cheap  tin  pails,  made  all  the  milk  and  water  pails  for  the 
neighborhood,  as  well  as  butter  tubs.  The  small  tanner 
was  long  since  driven  out  of  business,  but  years  ago  Mat- 
tituck  had  its  tan  yards.  Obadiah  Hudson,  who  dwelt 
before  the  Revolutionary  War  north  of  the  lake,  east  of 
Daniel  Broderick's  house,  and  owned  the  property  north 
of  his  house  extending  to  the  Sound,  was  a  tanner. 
His  tan  vats  were  perhaps  located  where  George  H. 
Fischer's  market  garden  now  lies.  Later,  Deacon 
Nathaniel  Hubbard,  who  died  in  1834,  had  a  tannery 
near  his  house,  where  Postmaster  Henry  P.  Tuthill  now 
resides. 

Mattituck  has  always  had  sons  who  "followed  the  wa- 
ter." In  the  days  when  the  whaling  fleets  sailed  from- 
Sag  Harbor  and  Greenport,  many  Mattituck  men  went 
on  whaling  voyages,  and  a  number  have  been  engaged  in 
the  coast  trade.  One  son  of  a  Mattituck  sea-faring  fam- 
ily, Salem  Wines,  became  a  boat  builder  in  New  York 
City  and  was  the  inventor  of  the  widely-used  centre- 
board, replacing  the  clumsy  lee-board  that  was  thrown' 
over  the  side  in  former  years.     Salem  Wines  never  pat- 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


22,y 


ented  this  important  invention  and  it  was  promptly  adopt- 
ed by  all  boat  builders.  He  knew  it  was  of  great  value 
and  was  glad  to  see  it  in  general  use.  In  this  he  was  like 
Benjamin  Franklin,  who  did  not  patent  his  stove  or  any 
of  his  numerous  inventions,  saying,  "As  we  enjoy  great 
advantages  from  the  inventions  of  others  we  should  be 
glad  of  an  opportunity  to  serve  others  by  an  invention  of 
ours ;  and  this  we  should  do  freely  and  generously."  Tak- 


RESIDENCE  OF  ARTHUR   L.  DOWNS. 


ing  this  admirable  position  Wines  is  like  to  lose  the  credit 
as  he  lost  the  emoluments  of  his  invention.  For  the  honor 
of  this  generous  man  it  is  pleasant  to  record  that  the 
centre-board  was  given  to  the  w^orld  by  Salem  Wines,  a 
native  of  Mattituck. 

The  late  Daniel  R.  Cox  was  a  builder  of  small  boats. 
P.  Harvev  Durvee  and  Elmer  D.  Tuthill  carry  on  this  in- 


236  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

dustry  at  present  on  the  shore  of  Mattituck  Creek.  They 
make  excellent  small  boats  of  every  description  and  have 
launched  several  staunch  and  swift  power  boats  of  beau- 
tiful workmanship. 

The  bays  and  creeks  about  Mattituck  abound  in  sea 
food"  of  every  description,  and  from  the  earliest  times  to 
the  present  some  of  the  inhabitants  have  devoted  most  of 
their  time,  and  most  of  the  inhabitants  have  devoted  some 
of  their  time,  to  fishing  and  procuring  eels,  clams  and 
crabs.  The  oysters  of  Mattituck  Creek  have  been  recog- 
nized for  many  years  as  of  superior  quality,  but  it  was  not 
until  the  tide  gates  at  the  mill  were  removed  that  their 
cultivation  on  a  considerable  scale  was  successful.  Since 
1903  large  quantities  have  been  planted  and  Mattituck 
Creek  oysters  have  a  well-established  reputation  as  of  the 
very  best  quality  and  of  peculiarly  fine  flavor.  There  is 
a  large  demand  for  them  from  the  best  restaurants  and 
most  famous  hotels  of  New  York  City. 

In  the  escallop  fleets  that  dot  the  Peconic  Bay  from 
September  to  December,  and  later  wdien  the  winter  is 
open,  many  boats  are  manned  by  Mattituck  men.  The 
masters  of  these  trim  sloops  and  of  the  graceful  pleasure 
craft  that  sail  about  the  bay  in  the  summer  season  would 
be  interested  to  see  such  a  boat  as  that  described  by 
Amasa  Pike,  of  Mattituck,  in  1796,  when  he  mortgaged, 
besides  his  one  acre  of  land  with  dwelling  (probably  F. 
C.  Barker's  house),  "one-third  part  of  a  certain  Petti- 
auger  called  the  Nightingale  of  Southold  and  lately  com- 
manded by  said  Pike."  This  name  "pettiauger"  stood  for 
the  more  common  "perriauger,"  signifying  a  small 
schooner  with  a  lee-board.  Both  words  are  remarkable 
corruptions  of  the  French  "pirogue,"  which  stood  for  an 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


^17 


Indian  word  meaning  a  dug-out,  or  canoe  shaped  from 
the  trunk  of  a  tree.  Webster  gives  seven  or  eight  corrupt 
spelHngs  of  pirogue,  inckiding  pcrriaiiger,  but  pcttianger 
is  not  in  the  Hst.  It  is  needless  to  say  that  there  are  no 
perriaugers  in  the  waters  about  modern  Alattituck.  The 
armed  boats  on  the  Sound  in  Revolutionary  times  may 
have  been  of  this  description. 


^^W4 

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■'  1     i 

RESIDEXCi:   UF  iiuX.  JuilX   -M.   i^UPTON. 


An  industry  of  many  years'  standing  that  modern 
Mattituck  has  lost,  owing  to  changed  conditions,  is  the 
milling  business.  One  hundred  and  fifty  years  ago,  per- 
haps two  hundred,  there  stood  a  windmill  for  grinding 
grain  on  the  elevated  ground  east  of  the  lake.  This  was 
operated  by  Henry  Pike^  who  in  his  will,  1780,  ordered  it 
to  be  sold.     Its  location  leads  one  to  suppose  that  it  was 


22,^  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

erected  before  1710,  conveniently  situated  with  respect 
to  the  old  highway.  There  was  another  windmill  in  the 
early  days,  probably  somewhat  further  east,  belonging  to 
the  Corwin  family.  It  is  mentioned  in  the  will  of  John 
Corwin,  son  of  Theophilus,  in  1740,  and  again  in  the  will 
of  Jonathan  Corwin,  who  left  it  in  1798  to  his  sons,  Selah 
and  Asa.  The  tide-mill,  near  the  inlet,  was  built  in  182 1 
by  Richard  Cox,  of  Oyster  Bay,  who  secured  permission 
from  the  town  to  erect  and  maintain  the  dam  and  tide 
gates.  This  mill  was  run  for  some  years  by  Cox  and  his 
sons,  who  did  a  large  and  increasing  business.  The  prop- 
erty became  valuable  and  shares  in  it  were  sold  after  five 
•or  ten  years  to  several  parties.  James  Worth  bought  a 
half  interest  in  1825,  and  Barnabas  B.  Horton  a  quarter 
interest  in  1833.  Walter  Terry  and  Edward  H.  Terry, 
Martin  L.  Robinson  and  George  W.  Cooper  were  part 
■owners  at  different  times.  The  late  Capt.  Joshua  W. 
Terry  became  the  miller  in  1847,  retiring  from  a  sea- far- 
ing life,  and  continued  the  business  until  the  growing  in- 
firmities of  age  compelled  his  retirement  in  1902.  He 
sold  the  mill  to  Yetter  &  Moore,  of  Riverhead,  retaining 
the  house,  in  which  he  died  in  1904,  at  the  age  of  82,  hav- 
ing been  born  the  year  that  the  mill  was  erected.  His 
widow  survives  him  in  the  old  home,  where  she  spent 
nearly  sixty  years  of  married  life.  The  mill  is  now  used 
as  a  place  of  public  entertainment.  The  tide  gates  are 
removed  and  ere  long  the  old  dam,  with  its  low  bridge, 
Avill  give  place  to  an  elevated  steel  bridge,  with  a  draw, 
spanning  the  entrance  to  Mattituck  harbor. 

For  some  years  the  tide-mill  was  not  without  strenuous 
competition,  for  a  steam  mill  was  erected  in  1858,  where 
James  L.  Reeve's  store  is  now  located.     The  steam  mill 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 


239 


was  owned  by  Andrew  Gilderslecve  and  Barnabas  Pike, 
and  later  by  Barnabas  Pike  and  Louis  K.  Adams,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Pike  &  Adams.  In  1861  Silas  M,  Hal- 
lock  bought  the  interest  of  Barnabas  Pike.  The  mill  was 
destroyed  by  fire  about  1863.  For  a  time  this  enterprise 
prospered,  but  changes  in  farming  conditions  would  have 
slowed  down  its  wheels  if  the  fire  had  not  stopped  them. 
The  acreage  of  wheat  grown  in  Suffolk  County  was  much 
less  than  in  earlier  years.    There  was  less  grain  and  more 


RESIDENCE    OF   CHARLES    W.    WICKHAM. 


money  for  the  farmers,  and  this  meant  fewer  trips  to  the 
local  mill  and  more  barrels  of  western  flour. 

The  same  changes  that  underrriined  the  business  of  the 
flour  mills  built  a  new  foundation  under  the  canning, 
pickling  and  seed-growing  industries.  In  1888  William 
H.  Hudson,  having  developed  an  important  canning  busi- 
ness in  Oyster  Bay,  erected  a  large  canning  factory  in 
Mattituck,  his  sons,  William  M.  and  Joseph  H.,  being 
associated  with  him  in  the  business.     The  Mattituck  fac- 


240  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

tory,  situated  between  the  railroad  and  the  North  Road^ 
in  the  western  part  of  the  village,  gives  employment  to 
many  hands,  and  offers  a  steady  market  every  summer 
for  great  quantities  of  asparagus,  tomatoes  and  squash. 
Cauliflower  also  has  been  canned  in  recent  years  with, 
good  results.  The  products  of  this  factory  are  of  the 
highest  standard  of  excellence  and  command  a  ready 
market.  The  normal  output  of  asparagus  for  the  months 
of  May  and  June  is  about  200,000  cans  each  year.  The 
severe  blight  which  affected  the  Long  Island  asparagus 
crop  for  several  years  after  1896  cut  down  the  yield 
most  seriously,  but  the  supply  is  again  approaching  the 
normal. 

The  pickle  factory  of  the  Alart  &  Maguire  Company 
was  built  near  the  railroad,  at  the  crossing  of  Wickham's 
Lane,  in  1889.  In  this  factory  vast  numbers  of  cucum- 
bers have  been  pickled.  The  great  vats  are  capable  of 
holding  more  than  a  million  pickles  each.  This  is  one  of 
many  houses  owned  by  the  company,  and  is  under  the 
management  of  G.  Clarence  Cooper,  of  Mattituck.  Like 
the  asparagus  the  cucumber  crop  in  recent  years  has  suf- 
fered from  a  disastrous  blight,  which  has  discouraged  the 
farmers  who  planted  largely  for  pickles. 

The  seed  business  on  a  large  scale  was  started  in  Mat- 
tituck about  1867,  by  Francis  Brill,  who  occupied  the 
James  J.  Kirkup  place  and  improved  it  as  a  seed  farm 
for  some  years.  G.  Clarence  Cooper  manages  a  seed 
house  at  the  intersection  of  the  railway  and  the  North 
Road,  which  he  operates  in  connection  with  Charles  Al- 
len, a  well-known  seedsman  of  Floral  Park,  L.  I.  The 
Long  Island  Seed  Co.  was  organized  in  1904,  by  John 
M.  Lupton,  Robert  M.  Lupton,  William  Y.  Duryee  and 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  24I 

F.  B.  Garvey.  Their  handsome  building  stands  north  of 
the  railroad  track,  opposite  to  the  Library  Hall.  From 
the  beginning  this  company  has  done  a  large  and  increas- 
ing business,  and  its  success  is  assured.  Hon.  John  M. 
Lupton,  its  president,  still  carries  on  independently  his  old 
and  established  seed  business,  being  one  of  the  most  im- 
portant cabbage  seed  producers  in  the  country. 

The  extensive  hot-houses  of  Thomas  E.  Reeve  &  Son 
are  important  in  the  industrial  history  of  modern  Matti- 
tuck,  supplying  large  quantities  of  cucumbers,  cauliflower, 
tomatoes,  lettuce  and  radishes  to  the  city  markets  through- 
out the  year.  Fgr  a  number  of  years  a  smaller  hot-house 
was  operated  in  Oregon,  by  Wm,  V.  Duryee,  who  made  a 
successful  specialty  of  carnations.  This  plant  is  now 
operated  by  B,  Oscar  Robinson,  who  raises  vegetables  for 
the  city  market. 

The  Mattituck  Transportation  Company,  incorporated 
in  1905,  inspired  by  the  improvements  to  the  harbor,  but 
not  waiting  for  their  completion,  has  built  a  dock  near  the 
old  mill,  and  handles  a  considerable  share  of  the  produce 
of  the  surrounding  farms,  shipping  it  to  New  Haven, 
Conn.  This  company  will  operate  power  boats  of  light 
draft  between  Mattituck  and  New  Haven  until  the  im- 
provement of  the  harbor  is  accomplished,  when  steam- 
boats for  both  freight  and  passenger  service  will  be 
placed  on  the  routes  between  Mattituck  and  New  Haven 
and  Mattituck  and  New  York. 

The  improvement  of  the  harbor,  long  desired,  was 
first  sought  in  a  definite  way  by  the  Village  Improvement 
Society,  which  later  grew  into  the  Mattituck  Board  of 
Trade,  an  organization  which  has  accomplished  many 
things  for  the  betterment  of  the  village.     Through  the 


242  A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK. 

earnest  and  able  effort  of  Congressman  Joseph  M.  Bel- 
ford  the  first  appropriation  of  $15,000  for  iNIattituck  was 
made  in  the  River  and  Harbor  Bill  of  1897.  With  thi;? 
money  a  stone  breakwater  was  built  on  the  western  side  of 
the  inlet.  Through  the  exertions  of  Congressman  Town- 
send  Scudder  a  further  appropriation  was  made  in  1905^ 
of  $20,000.  This  has  recently  become  available,  the  east- 
ern breakwater  has  been  built,  and  with  the  money  on 
hand  a  part  of  the  dredging  will  be  accomplished.  The 
work  being  carried  so  far  forward,  its  completion  in  the 
near  future  is  assured.  The  present  representative  in 
Congress,  Hon.  Wm.  W.  Cocks,  has  shown  hearty  inter- 
est in  the  project. 

The  Board  of  Trade,  to  the  public  spirit  and  enter- 
prise of  which  Mattituck  owes  this  improvement,  has 
for  its  officers  Hon.  John  M.  Lupton,  president ;  George 
H.  Fischer,  secretary,  and  James  L.  Reeve,  treasurer. 
One  of  the  many  good  things  that  the  organization  has 
accomplished  is  the  establishment  of  the  Alattituck  Fire 
District.  Besides  the  burning  of  the  steam  mill,  many 
fires  have  endangered  the  central  part  of  the  village  in 
years  past  and  efficient  protection  has  been  urgently 
needed.  In  April,  1906,  fire  commissioners  were  elected^ 
and  the  district  covered  by  a  mile  radius  from  the  village 
centre  will  be  guarded  in  the  near  future  by  a  well- 
equipped  fire  department.  The  first  fire  commissioners 
of  Mattituck  are  Otto  P.  Hallock,  James  J.  Kirkup  and 
James  L.  Reeve. 

It  was  also  at  the  initiative  of  the  Board  of  Trade 
that  the  Mattituck  Bank  was  established  in  April,  1905. 
This  institution  proves  of  great  advantage  to  the  business 
interests   of   Mattituck  and   neighborinof  villasfes   and   is 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  243 

supported  beyond  the  conservative  expectation  of  its 
founders.  It  is  already  well  established,  its  permanence 
and  development  well  assured.  The  officers  of  the  bank 
are :  President,  John  M.  Lupton  ;  vice-president,  Nat  S. 
Tuthill ;  secretary,  Arthur  L.  Downs ;  cashier,  E.  D.  Cor- 
win  and  assistant  cashier,  Terry  E.  Tuthill. 

The  bank  has  its  home  in  the  fine  buildin""  known  as 
Library  Hall,  the  gift  to  his  native  village  of  Frank  M. 
Lupton,  publisher,  of  New  York .  City.  This  building 
was  formally  opened  on  February  i6th,  1905.  with  ap- 
propriate exercises.  On  the  upper  floor  is  a  finely  ap- 
pointed hall,  with  a  large,  well-equipped  stage.  The  hall 
will  seat  seven  or  eight  hundred  people.  On  the  lower 
floor,  besides  beautiful  library  and  reading  rooms  and 
the  trustees'  room,  there  are  accommodations  for  the 
bank  and  the  drug  stpre  of  Robert  H.  Lahy.  The  build- 
ing is  heated  with  steam  and  lighted  with  acetylene  gas. 
For  its  perpetual  maintenance  it  is  endowed  by  the 
generous  donor.  The  building  and  endowment  are  held 
by  a  corporation  known  as  The  Alattituck  Literary  Asso- 
ciation, in  trust  for  the  people  of  the  community.  The 
Library  Hall  will  reflect  lasting  honor  upon  the  giver  and 
will  confer  lasting  benefit  upon  the  village. 

The  Free  Library  for  which  this  home  is  provided 
was  opened  ]May  3,  1902,  with  450  volumes.  In  August. 
1903,  it  was  duly  incorporated,  under  the  Regents  of  the 
L^niversity  of  the  State  of  New  York.  In  1905  it  was 
moved  to  its  beautiful  new  room  and  now  has  nearly 
three  thousand  well-selected  volumes.  Its  reading  room 
is  supplied  with  newspapers  and  many  of  the  leading 
periodicals.  It  is  open  daily,  except  Sundays  and  legal 
holidays,  from  10  A.  M.  to  10  P.  M.,  and  is  well  patron- 


A     HISTORV     OF     MATTITUCK. 


245 


ized.  The  efficient  librarian  is  Elmer  D.  Tuthill,  who 
has  held  the  position  from  the  beginning.  The  institution 
of  the  library  is  chiefly  due  to  enthusiastic  and  per- 
severing efforts  of  the  Rev.  Dudley  Oliver  Osterheld, 
then  pastor  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

The  Dramatic  Association,  the  Literary  Society  and 
the  Lecture  Association  enjoy  the  benefit  of  the  Library 


A  CORNER  OF  THE  LDiKARY  AND  THE  REAI»1N(J  KUUM. 


Hall.  A  successful  lecture  course,  with  six  or  seven 
entertainments  each  winter,  has  been  maintained  since 
1895.  This  course  has  been  well  patronized  by  the  peo- 
ple of  Mattituck  and  surrounding  villages  and  has  in- 
creased in  popularity  and  excellence  each  year. 

The  Junior  Order  of  L'nited  American  Mechanics  is 
represented  in   Mattituck  by  a  strong   council.   No.   34, 


246  A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK. 

with  upwards  of  one  hundred  members.  This  council 
was  organized  Sept.  12,  1895. 

Of  professional  men,  besides  the  ministers  of  the 
churches  and  the  principal  of  the  school,  Mattituck  has  a 
resident  lawyer,  Frank  C.  Barker,  and  a  physician  of 
experience  and  recognized  ability.  Dr.  Edward  K.  Mor- 
ton. 

Mattituck  responded  patriotically  in  the  war  of  the 
rebellion.  Most  of  the  Mattituck  soldiers  were  in  the 
127th  New  York  Volunteers,  the  regiment  raised  by  Col. 
(now  General)  Stewart  L.  Woodford.  The  names  of 
the  men  who  served  in  the  war,  either ,  enlisting  from 
Mattituck  or  later  making  the  village  their  home,  are : 

Aldrich,  James  B.,  127th  N.  Y. 

Anderson.  William,  U.  S.  Col'd  Inf. 

Boutchcr,  William  J.,  14th  U.  S.  Inf. 

Benjamin.  John  H.,  127th  X.  Y. 

Bennett,  Albert  L.,  127th  N.  Y.  - 

Briggs,  James,  2d  X.  Y. 

Collins,  John,  127th  X\  Y. 

Cox,  Daniel  R..  57th  X.  Y. 

Gould,  William  E..  U.  S.  Xavy. 

Hallock,  Henry  M..  127th  X.  Y. 

Haney,  Anthony,  127th  X.  Y. 

Plelfrich,  Sebastian  L.,  165th  X.  Y. 

Hunt,  Robert,  150th  X.  Y. 

Jones,  Pleasant, R.  I. 

McGinn,  Michael,  47th  X.  Y. 

Mapes,  Silas  Howell,  M.  D.,  surgeon,  60th  X\  Y.  and 
Kna|)p"s  Battery. 

Majies,  Charles  Henry,  r)5th  X.  Y. 

Mapes,  S.  Edward,  121st  X.  Y. 


A     HISTORY     OF     MATTITUCK.  247 

.     Mayo,  Oliver  A.,  127th  N.  Y, 

Nichols,  George  W.,  165th  X.  Y, 

Norton,  John  R.,  127th  N.  Y. 

Pease,  Grove,  127th  N.  Y. 

Rafferty,  Joseph,  127th  N.  Y. 

Reeve,  Edmund  P.,  133d  N.  Y. 

Reeve,  George  B.,  127th  N.  Y. 

Reeve,  Thomas  E.,  127th  N.  Y. 

Teed,  Isaac  N.,  4th  N.  Y. 

Tyler,  George  H.,  158th  N.  Y. 

Wiggins,  Joseph  C.,  127th  N.  Y. 

Wood,  George  S.,  163d  N.  Y. 

Wolf,  John,  1 2th  N.  Y. 

Mattituck  had  one  representative  in  the  late  Span- 
ish war.  Joseph  O'Rourke.  4th  U.  S.  Infantry,  who  met 
his  death  in  the  service  of  his  country  in  the  Philip- 
pines. 

The  majority  of  the  present  inhabitants  of  Matti- 
tuck  are  descendants  of  the  old  Southold  families,  with 
many  representatives  also  of  the  old  families  of  other 
Suffolk  County  towns.  The  Dutch  families  of  the 
western  end  of  the  Island  are  well  represented 'in  the 
Bergen.  Duryee.  Hamilton,  Wyckoff  and  Waters  fami- 
lies, who  came  to  Mattituck  a  generation  ago  because 
real  estate  in  the  vicinity  of  Brooklyn  was  growing  too 
valuable  to  be  used  for  farming.  Some  of  their  chilldren 
who  own  Sound  shore  property  in  Mattituck  are  in  a 
fair  way  to  enjoy  a  similar  experience.  Some  of  the  sub- 
stantial citizens  and  owners  of  valuable  property  are 
Germans,  such  as  Conrad  Grabie,  Louis  Dohm,  John 
Hiising,  John  Zenius,  Hubert  W.  Kkin.  Frederick 
Bicking;-.  Emil  Mvrus  and  Ausrust  Dittmann.    The  found- 


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ers  of  the  Bontcher  and  Kirkiip  families  of  Mattituck 
were  Englishmen.  E.  V.  Knipe,  also  an  Englishman  by 
birth,  has  founded  a  successful  business  in  Mattituck,  and 
has  been  a  resident  for  years.  The  Irish  are  well  repre- 
sented in  the  Broderick,  Burns,  Donovan,  Drum,  Dunn, 
Garvey,  Kelly,  Lindsay,  Maguire,  McDermott,  McMillan, 


GRAVE-STONES  OP  ZERUBBABEL,  AND  ESTER 
(OSMAN)  HALLOCK, 

Ancestors  of  most  of  the  Hallocks  of  Mattituck. 


McNulty,  O'Neill,   O'Rourke,  Rafferty,  Rafford,  Riley, 
Shalvey,  Stewart  and  Walker  families. 

In  addition  to  many  summer  boarders  Mattituck  has 
her  cottagers,  whose  numbers  will  be  largely  increased 
in  the  future.  The  shore  of  Peconic  Bay  between  New 
Suffolk  and  Jamesport  affords  exceedingly  attractive  sites 


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249 


for  summer  homes,  and  what  was  regarded  as  farm  land 
a  few  years  ago  has  advanced  greatly  in  vakie  with  the 
demand  for  building  sites.  The  beautiful  summer  homes 
of  Stewart  Hull  Moore,  Mrs.  Charity  Mould,  Frank  M. 
Lupton,  Judge  Henry  F.  Haggerty,  Rev.  Robert  Rogers, 
Rev.    Wm.    A.    Wasson,    Frank    Bray,    Louis    Schenck. 


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Samuel  Carpenter  and  John  J.  McLaughlin  are  the  ad- 
vance  guard  of  the  Bay  Shore,  and  others  are  to  follow. 
Rear  Admiral  Charles  Dwight  Sigsbee,  U.  S.  N.,  holds 
an  attractive  property  and  expects  to  build.  Robert  W. 
Wells  of  Laurel  is  selling  his  shore  front  land  by  the 
foot  instead  of  by  the  acre,  and  Charles  W.  Wickham  is 
dividing  a  part  of  his  fine  shore  front  into  building  lots. 


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The  Sound  Shore  is  beginning  to  attract  the  attention 
of  purchasers,  and  values  of  northside  properties  have 
risen  considerably  in  the  past  year.  The  hills  that  line 
the  shore  present  most  attractive  building  sites.  The 
outlook  across  the  water  to  Connecticut,  twenty  miles 
distant,  is  enchanting,  and  toward  the  west  the  view  is 


GRAVE-STONES    OF    HENRY    AND    PHEBE    TUTHIDD, 
Orandparents   of   the   wife   of  President   Wm.   Henry  Harrison. 

imbroken  until  the  setting  sun  drops  beneath  the  water. 
Far  out  on  the  Sound  the  steamers  and  sailing  vessels 
pass,  and  near  shore  the  cottagers  may  see  their  yachts 
at  anchor,  to  be  brought  into  Mattituck  harbor  for  safe- 
"iceeping  when  the  winter  comes.  Along  the  Sound  hills 
on  either  side  of  the  creek  a  boulevard  can  be  built  and 
doubtless   will   be    built.      It   is   perhaps   unsafe   for   the 


A     HISTORY    OF     MATTITUCK.  25 1 

author  to  leave  the  soHd  ground  of  history  to  launch 
out  upon  the  deep  of  prophecy,  but  keeping  close  to 
shore  he  sees  the  Sound  hills  lined  with  beautiful  cot- 
tages, the  beach  peopled  with  bathers,  and  the  water 
•dotted  with  yachts  and  launches. 

The  future  of  IVIattituck  with  respect  to  material  pros- 
perity is  assured,  and  there  is  much  reason  for  the  ex- 
pectation with  every  reason  for  the  hope  that  she  will 
maintain  also  a  continual  advance  in  the  things  that 
pertain  to  character  and  culture.  The  village  has  sent  out 
sons  and  daughters  who,  in  themselves  or  their  descend- 
ants, have  graced  every  honorable  calling.  Not  a  few 
distinguished  statesmen,  jurists,  lawyers,  ministers  of 
the  gospel,  teachers,  authors,  poets,  physicians  and  rep- 
resentative men  in  many  professions  and  lines  of  business 
activity  have  sprung  from  the  old  Mattituck  families,  and 
countless  numbers  less  distinguished  have  done  good  and 
honest  work  in  the  world.  Like  all  country  villages 
Mattituck  has  sent  many  of  her  choicest  sons  and  daugh- 
ters to  the  great  cities  and  distant  places.  The  fountain 
from  which  this  living  stream  perpetually  flows  is  yet 
pure  and  undiminished.  While  some  of  her  sister  vil- 
lages have  gone  backward,  and  some  parishes  once  strong 
have  been  depleted,  Mattituck  has  gone  forward.  Enough 
of  her  children  have  remained  at  home  to  work  the  land, 
to  improve  their  homes,  to  maintain  the  churches  and 
other  institutions,  and  with  intelligence,  industry  and  en- 
terprise to  make  progress  in  many  directions.  May  God's 
blessing  abide  upon  Mattituck  and  all  her  children. 


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INDEX, 


Aeiidcmy,    Frankliiiville,   199. 
Aldrich,  Peter,  GS. 
Alien,    Rev.    G.   W.,   190. 
Alvoicl,    Rev.    E.    P.,    190. 
Aquebogue,      meaning      of,      18; 

spelling  of,   20. 
Aquebogue  Dividend,   31. 
Armstrong,  Mary,  107. 

Bailey,  Rev.  Benjamin,  159,  161. 
Bank,   The   Mattituck,   242. 
Bank  for  Support  of  Gospel,  95, 

161,   166. 
Baptism   on   indulgent   plan,    108, 

117. 
Barker,  Frank  C,  246;  house  of, 

84,    210,    211    (illustration). 
Barker,  Rev.  Nehemiah,  110,  115, 

116. 
Battle  of  Long  Island,  140,   141. 
Bayly,    Capt.   John,    140. 
Belford,  Hon.  Joseph  M.,  199,  242. 
Board  of  Trade,  The  Mattituck, 

242. 
Boat  building,   235. 
Booth,    John,   30,   32,    33. 
Booth's  Hill,   34. 
Breakwater,  242. 
Brill,   Francis,   240. 
Krown,   Samuel,  49. 
Eurving-ground,   154,   157. 
Bushnell,    Alexander,    212. 

Camp   lot,   119. 

Canning  factory,  239. 

Canoe  Path  (or  Place),  15,  17,  28 

Cemetery,  Bethany,  159. 

Census  of  1698,  72. 

Choir,   170,   179. 

Church,  The  Aquebogue,  97,  102; 
becomes  the  Jamesport  (Jon- 
gational,    177. 

Church,  The  Cutchogtic  Presby- 
terian,  117,   151. 

Church,  The  Cutchogue  Roman 
Catholic,  193. 

Church,  The  Franklinville,  169, 
176,    186. 

Church.  The  Methodist  Episco- 
pal, 170,  177,  189.  190  (illustra- 
tion).  191. 

Church.  The  Presbyterian,  180 
(illustration);  founded,  86;  deed 


for  land  of,  87  (illustration); 
first  edihce,  88;  second  edifice, 
169,  170;  agreement  to  build,  171 
(illustration);  third  edifice,  177, 
179;  rebuilt,  180;  first  incorpoia- 
tion,  151;  incorporation  in 
Union  Parish,  161;  incorpora- 
tion as  Mattituck  Society,  176; 
members  of,   in  1752,  101,  104. 

Church,  The  Upper  Aquebogue, 
103. 

Church  of  the  Redeemer.  The 
Protestant  Episcopal,  191  (il- 
lustration),   192. 

Clark,  Anna,  114;  John,  11;;. 
John,  Revolutionary  soldier. 
14.5,  146  (illustration);  John  3d, 
210;  Richard,  31,  59;  Samuel,  54, 
69;  Samuel,  Jr.,  106;  Thonia.s, 
69. 

(Meveland,  Mrs.  Ency  Hubbard. 
105  (illustration). 

Coleman,  William.  59. 

Cook.    Rev.    Thomas.   192. 

Conegums   Creek.    15.   16.   21. 

Corwin,  James.  53.  130;  old  house 
of,  52  (illustration):  John,  30, 
151;  Lieut.  John.  140;  Major 
John,  142:  Matthias,  51;  The- 
ophilus.    24.    51.   68.    75. 

Cove.    The.    17   (illustration). 

Cox  family,  five  generations  of, 
112  (illustration);  note  on,  75. 

Cox's  Lane.  57. 

Cox's  Neck,  58,  216. 

Craven,   Rev.   Charles   E..   187. 

Cutchogue.  meaning  of.  IS; 
spelling   of.    26. 

Cutchogue  Dividend.  27.  28,  30.  31. 

Cutchogue  Neck,  32. 

Darby.  Rev.   John,  96. 

Darby's  Branch,  97  (illustra- 
tion). 

Davenport.   Rev.  John.  116,  117. 

Davis,   Capt.   Gilbert,  81. 

Deacon,  earlv  importance  of  of- 
fice of,  109. 

Deed  for  parish  land,  87  (illus- 
tration). 

Deeds,   Indian.  14. 

Dickerson.    Philemon,  30,  42. 

Dingee.  Henrv  A.,  gives  land 
for  P.  E.  Church,  191. 


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Downs,  Arthur  L.,  parish  clerk, 
189;  residence  of,  235  (illustra- 
tion). 

Duryee,  John  W.,  185  (illustra- 
tion). 

Edwards,   Rev.   R.   M.,  192. 

Elders  of  Presbyterian  Church, 
in  1826,  168;  in  1854,  177,  178  (il- 
lustration); group  of,  185  (illus- 
tration) ;  present,  189. 

Elijah's   Lane,   224. 

Ellsworth   Tuthill   Road,    224. 

Elton,   John,  30,   53. 

Ely,  Wells,  204. 

Fanning,  Col.  Phineas,  plun- 
dered, 124. 

Farming,  change  in  methods  of, 
224. 

Fertilizer,  fish,  228;  commercial, 
231:  factory,  2.31. 

Fire  district,  242. 

Fishing.  228. 

Flag  of  Truce.  British  Permit 
for,  134,  135   (illustration). 

Fort  Neck,  32. 

Franklinville  Academy,   199. 

Franklinville  Church,  169,  170. 
186. 

Freight  transported  by  water, 
164,  196. 

Gardiner,  David,  69:  John,  ref- 
ugee, plundered,  125. 

Gardiner's  Neck,  36,  201. 

Garretson,    Rev.    George   R.,   186. 

Gilbert,  Rev.  Lyman  C,  170. 

Gildersleeve,  Andrew,  178  (illus- 
tration).  179,    210. 

Goering,   Rev.    H.   A..  190. 

Goldsmith,  John,  49;  Joshua, 
purchases  hotel  property,  43; 
Rev.    Benjamin,   150,   152,   153. 

Grave-stones,  of  Zerubbabel  and 
Esther  Hallock,  248  (illustra- 
tion); of  James  and  Deborah 
Reeve,  249  (illustration);  of 
Henry  and  Phetae  Tuthill,  250 
(illustration). 

Haggertv,  Judge  Henry  F.,  cot- 
tage of,  232  (illustration). 

Hallock,  Benjamin  Goldsmith, 
213;  Benjamin  Laurens,  215; 
Bethuel,  215;  David  B.,  213; 
John,  6fi.  68;  Luther,  218:  Peter, 
73,  114;  Thomas,  69,  73;  Thomas, 
father  of  the  M.  E.  Church, 
189;  William,  31,  62,  68;  Zerub- 
babel,  113. 

Hamlin,  Rev.  James  T.,  174,  175 
(illustration),    181,    182,    184. 

Harris,   Rev.   Edward,  174. 

Harrison,  President  Benjamin, 
ancestors   of.   77,  114. 

Heads  of  families  in  Southold  in 
1661,  29. 

Heds-es.  63:  lopped  trees  in,  64 
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Hedges,  Rev.  William,  182,  184. 

Highways,  13,  22,  23,  24,  37,  55. 
218,   223. 

Hillman,   Rev.  James  W.,   187. 

J3orton,  Barnabas  B.,  178  (illus- 
tration), 189;  Btnjamin,  56; 
John  Franks.  178  (illusti-ation), 
197,  203,  206;  Jonath  ui,  151; 
Lieut.   David,   140. 

Horton   fami.y,   206. 

Horton's  Cieek,  21. 

Horton' s  Neck,  212. 

Houses,  old,  81;  illustrations  of, 
45,   47,  52,   82,   S3,   84,  211.   iH. 

Howard,  George  W.,  216;  Louis 
I.,  112  (illustration). 

Howell,  Gershom,  203,  204;  Isaac 
R.,  185  (illustration);  Joel  C. 
house  of,  84  (illustration); 
Richard,   59,   62,   66,   68,   69,   73. 

Howell  Road,  224. 

Hot  houses,  241. 

Hubbard,  Isaac.  104;  John.  42, 
.59;  Nathaniel,  house  of,  214  (il- 
lustration). 

Hudson,  Bethiah,  114;  Ensign 
Nathaniel,  140;  Obadiah,  46. 
114. 

Humphreys,  Rev.  George  W., 
190. 

Huntting,    Rev.    Jonathan,    170. 

Indian  a  tenant,  40. 

Indian   Canoe  Place,   17. 

Indian   deeds,   14. 

Indian  Field.  32,  55. 

Indian  names,  14,  15,  16,  18,  £0,  26 

(note),   28  (note),  33. 
Inventory    of    Parish    Property, 

167   (illustration). 
Ives,   Rev.   Jesse,  116. 

Jessup,  Rev.  C.  A.,  192. 
Johnson,    Rebecca,  107. 

Kidd's     tree,     128,     1£9     (illustra- 
tion). 
King,   Samuel,   30,   55. 

Lamb,  Rev.  Joseph,  first  pastor, 
90. 

Land  grant  to  Revolutionary 
soldier,   147   (illustration). 

Land  values,  38,  78,  2.32. 

Lane,   Rev.   O.   C,  190. 

Laurel  Lake,  60  (illustration). 

Layton.   Rev.   William  A.,   190. 

Leavens,   Rev.    George,  190. 

Lecture   Association.    245. 

Leek,    Mary  and   Philip.    107. 

Library,  The  Mattituck  Free, 
243. 

Library  Hall,  243,  244  (illustra- 
tion). 

Lists  of  names.  30.  66.  68,  72,  95, 
101,    104,   113.   142,    154,   199.   246. 

Literary  Association,  The  Mat- 
tituck.  243. 

Literarv  Society.  245. 

Long  Island   Railroad,    194.   222. 


INDEX. 


399 


Long  Island  Seed  Company,  240. 

Lopped  trees,  64  (illustration). 

Lots  in  Curchaug  and  Occa- 
bauck  Dividends,  31. 

Love  Lane,  224. 

Luce,   Rev.   Abraham,   166,   170. 

Lupton,  Frank  M.,  cottage  of, 
230  (illustration);  gives  Library 
Hall,  243;  John  M.,  residence 
of,  237  (illustration);  Josiah,  53. 

Lynch,   Rev.  James,  193. 

Maiden  Lane,  224. 

Mails  and  mail  carriers,  195. 

Manor,   The,   34,  54,  55. 

Manor  Hill,  34. 

Marratooka     Lake,      "a     greate 

ffresh    pond."    37    (illustration). 
Mapes,    Jabez,    5S;    Thomas,    31, 

55,  57,  66,  67. 
Mapes   Neck,   5S,   70. 
Mather,  Rev.   Nathaniel.  90,  97. 
Mathews.    Mayor    David,    letter 

from,   137   (illustration). 
Matthews,   Robert,   70. 
Mattituck,  location  of,  13;  mean- 
ing   of,    IS;    surveyed,    26;    first 

proprietors   of,    30,   31. 
Mattituck  Bay,  or  Creek,   13.   16. 

19,   128. 
Mattituck   Harbor,   241. 
Meadow  lands,  20,  21. 
Mechanics.  The  Junior  Order  of 

United   American,   245. 
Middle   Road.   224. 
Mill   Lane,   219. 
Missionary   societies.   186,   188. 
Morton,   Dr.   Edward   K.,   246. 

Nabiachage,     name     for     Matti- 
tuck, 20. 
Nash.    Rev.   John,   190. 
Nelson,   Rev.  Julius,  190,  191. 
New  Haven   Colonv,   16,  29. 
Nichols,   Rev.   H.  F.,  190. 

Oregon  Road.   216. 
Organ,   pipe,  187. 
Osborne,  Rev.   T.   G.,  190. 
Osman.     Jacob,     74;     John,     69; 

Thomas.     61,     66,    68;     note    on 

name,  74. 
Osterheld,    Rev.    Dudley    Oliver, 

190,  245. 
Overton,  Thomas,  49,  204. 
Oysterponds  Dividend,   28. 
Oysters  of  Mattituck  Creek,  236. 

Pacific  Street,  224. 
Park,  Rev.  Joseph,  98,  110. 
Parshall  family,  106. 
Parsonage,     ancient,    93,    94;     of 

Union  Parish,  162,  166;  present, 

181. 
Peconic   Bay.   meaning  of  name 

of,  18;  scalloping  in,  234;  shore 

front,  248. 
Perine,  Rev.  J.  E.,  190. 
Perriauger,   2.36. 
Pessapuncke     Neck,     32,     34,    36; 

"sweating  place,"  33. 


Pest  house,  205. 

Pequash  Neck,  ancient  town 
bound,  27;  meaning  of,  28; 
ownership   of,   27,  133. 

Pickle  factorj',  240. 

Pike,  Barnabas,  85,  236;  Henry, 
205,  237;  Squire  Henry.  225  (il- 
lustration); William  H.,  44,  205. 

Pike  Street,  224. 

Postoffice,  195. 

Poole's   Neck,   32. 

Population,  13;  centre  of,  198, 
223. 

Protection  Paper,  British,  123 
(illustration). 

Purrier,    William,    30,   36,    38. 

Rate  lists,  66,  68. 

Reeve,  Capt.  James,  Colonial 
Commission  of,  141  (illustra- 
tion), 151;  Capt.  Paul,  140;  Dea- 
con Thomas,  43.  72,  104:  Debo- 
rah, 106,  114;  Edward.  178  (il- 
lustration), 181:  Edward  Y.,  185 
(illustration);  Elymas.  82  (il- 
lustration). 203,  206,  208  (illus- 
tration); Ensign  James,  140; 
George  B.,  39,  179;  Henry,  178 
(illustration);  Hezekiah,  105; 
Irad.  225  (illustration) ;  James, 
38.  66,  67,  86,  104,  113:  James  W., 
178  (illustration);  Jonathan,  50, 
69;  JNIajor  Isaac.  140:  Rev.  Na- 
thaniel, 163;  Selah,  115;  Thom- 
as, 30,  42.  113;  Timothv.  207; 
William,  66.  67. 

Reeve  family,  70. 

Reeve  Place,  209. 

Reeve's  (or  James)   Creek.   16. 

Reeve's   Neck,    32. 

Refugees,  Revolutionarv.  120,  126. 
1.31.  133. 

Residents  of  1840,  201. 

Revivals  of  religion,  151,  169,  172, 
182. 

Revolutionary  soldiers.  142; 
hardships  of,  131. 

Revolutionary  War.  conditions 
during.   119,   139:   tax  for,  140. 

Riverhead    town   line,   62. 

Robin's  Island  Neck.  32. 

Schools,  198,  199,  201. 

School-house,  198,  200  (illustra- 
tion).  201. 

Separates.  103. 

Session  of  Presbyterian  Church, 
first  recognized,  109;  first  min- 
utes of,  168. 

Settlers,  earliest,  66;  circum- 
stances of,   76. 

Sewing  Society,    189. 

Shirley.   James   and  John,  197. 

Shoe  factory,   196. 

Sloops  between  Mattituck  and 
New  York,  41.  194.  19.5,  202. 

Smith,   Rev.   W.,   192. 

Sneden,  John,  gives  church  bell. 
181. 

Soper  family,   107. 


400 


INDEX. 


Sound,  Long  Island,  shore  prop- 
erty, 250. 

Spinning  Society,  164. 

Stage  lines,  194,  197. 

Steam  mill.  238. 

Stores,   old,   197. 

Storrs,   Rev.    John,    119. 

Sunday  School,  4S  (illustration), 
188 

Swasey,  John,  31,  60,  66,  68;  Jo- 
seph,  66,   68. 

Taft,   Mrs.   M.  Alice,   201. 

Tanneries,   47,   234. 

Tavern,    42,   83   (illustration). 

Terrell,  Barnabas,  44,  45  (illus- 
tration); Bethiah,  106;  Thomas, 
66,   67,   73,  76. 

Terrv,  David,  49,  203;  Gershom, 
49.  ■ 

Tide-mill.    217    (illustration),    238. 

Thompson,   Rev.  R.   W.,   190. 

Town  meetings  in  Mattituck, 
145. 

Trades,  SO,  233. 

Training,  220. 

Trustees,  of  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Church,  191:  of  Presbyte- 
rian Church,  151.  162,  177,  189. 

Tusten,   Thomas,   54,   56,   66. 

Tuthill,  Capt.  Ellsworth,  227  (il- 
lustration); Capt.  Ira.  202,  225 
(illustration);  Elmer  D.,  libra- 
rian, 245;  Henry  and  Phebe,  77; 
J.  Smith,  225  (illustration); 
John,  31,  49,  59,  61;  Lieut.  John, 
140. 

Union   Parish,   161,   162,  176. 

Vail.    Jeremiah,   30,    55. 
Valuation  of  land,  38,  78,  232. 


Values  about  1700,  78. 
A^auxhall  Garden,  212. 
Vosseller,  Rev.  D.  B.,  190. 

Wallace,  Rev.  R.  Howard,  187. 

War,  soldiers  in  Civil,  246;  Rev- 
olutionary,  142;    Spanish,   247. 

"U^arner,  Judge  David,  166;  Na- 
thaniel, 88,  104. 

Wasson,  Rev.  William  A.,  192, 
193. 

Webb,   Ebenezer,   204. 

Weeks,   Rev.   Robert,   192. 

Weller,    Rev.  W.   W.,   190. 

Wells,  John,  132;  Joshua,  106,  110; 
William,   30,  49,  114. 

West,   Rev.   George  W.,  192. 

Whitaker,  Rev.  Dr.  Epher,  117, 
1S3. 

Wickham,  Charles  W.,  37,  resi- 
dence of,  239  (illustration) ; 
John,  49;  Joseph  P.,  48.  179,  225 
(illustration);  Parnel,  125; 
Phebe  Moore,  48. 

"Wiggins,   Orrin  T.,  218. 

AVilliamson,   John,  113. 

Wills,  Long  Island,  recorded  in 
New   York,    139. 

"Windmills.  237. 

"SVines.  Barnabas.  40,  41,  69,  81, 
195;  Salem,  234;  William,  195. 

Wolf-pit,   35   (illustration),    46. 

Woodbridge,  Rev.  William  G., 
186. 

Worth,   James,   202. 

Yerks,   Rev.   I.  S.,  190. 

Young,  Capt.  Selah,  185  (illus- 
tration); Joseph.  30,  39,  59; 
Lieut.   Joshua.   140. 

Young  People's  Society  Of 
Christian  Endeavor,  187,   188. 


